It has seemingly been a one-way move higher in longer-term interest rates in May, with the 30-year U.S. Treasury yield above 5% again and higher by 0.36% this month alone. Additionally, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield breached 4.5%, up 0.35% in May a
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On May 3, 2025, at the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) annual shareholders meeting, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Warren Buffett announced he would be stepping down at the end of the year. Buffett will be succeeded by Greg Abel, the current Vice Chairman of
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The equity market’s recovery over the past month has been extraordinary in terms of both speed and scale. A turnaround of such magnitude is highly unusual, and the sudden shift in investor sentiment is among the fastest I have observed in my 25
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On May 12, President Donald Trump signed the “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients” executive order aimed at making prescription drugs more affordable for Americans. The premise driving the initiat
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In a recent equity strategy publication (ask your LPL advisor for the latest Equity Strategy Insights publication if interested), we identified potential sector winners and losers under various tariff scenarios. During the high tariff, high trade unc
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Highlights:
• The temporary trade deal with China paused reciprocal tariffs for 90 days. Details are still emerging.
• The U.S. effective tariff rate is down to 13.1% from 22.8%, according to Fitch Ratings.
• In a se
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As most of the large cap homebuilders have reported quarterly earnings, we think it’s a good time to check in on the industry, and whether the sell-off fully reflects the near-term headwinds they are facing. The “Big 4” S&P 500
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Spring break came and went, and market watchers will soon turn their calendars and put April in the history books. This month, U.S. stocks experienced record trading volume, historic intra-day price swings, and widespread technical damage as a storm
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It was quite the week in the Treasury market last week, which was influenced by multiple factors: sticky inflation expectations, the Federal Reserve's (Fed) patient stance, rumors of foreign buyer boycotts, hedge fund deleveraging, portfolio reba
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The sharp declines in U.S. equity indexes over the past week were unsettling, but far from unprecedented. Historically, similar sell-offs have occurred at least 14 other times in the past century under strict definitions of what constitutes a "w
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