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Seeds of Opportunity: The Case for Agriculture Investments | Weekly Market Commentary | May 26, 2026 Commodity market trends: Commodity markets have been on an impressive, and volatile, run so far this decade, with leadership oscillating between energy and precious metals. Not surprising, after commodities’ “Lost Decade” of the 2010s, given the asset class tends to move in long capital cycles...

A New Fed Regime: Warsh, Policy Direction, and Treasury Market Consequences | Weekly Market Commentary | May 18, 2026 Headlines surrounding the Middle East have dominated investor attention since late February. While uncertainty remains elevated, diplomatic negotiations have supported equities, even as fixed income and commodity markets continue to reflect potential risks. Recent economic data suggest the U.S. econ...

A New Fed Regime: Warsh, Policy Direction, and Treasury Market Consequences | Weekly Market Commentary | May 11, 2026 LPL Research explores how a potential Warsh-led Fed could reshape policy, Treasury markets, and volatility amid rising deficits and shifting demand.

AI Wave Continues to Power Technology Earnings Boom | Weekly Market Commentary | May 4, 2026 In investing, the goal is to find assets that appreciate. That can be accomplished in different ways. One way is to find businesses that aren’t growing very fast but can be purchased at a low enough valuation that the investment can perform well. Another way to find potentially good investments is...

American Industrial Renaissance: Fact or Fiction? | Weekly Market Commentary | April 27, 2026 The “American Industrial Renaissance” is an investment theme investors and allocators alike have probably been pitched several times, or at the very least heard about. Supply chains for manufactured goods have evolved to become more complex, while U.S. manufacturing employment as a share of tota...

Rethinking Fixed Income Allocation in a Multi‑Polar World | Weekly Market Commentary | April 20, 2026 As we wrote in our recent Rate and Credit View, the case for global bonds has strengthened as the structure of fixed income markets — and the sources of risk within them — have become increasingly asymmetric. The U.S. bond market represents less than half of global fixed income outstanding, yet ...

The Economy Takes Multiple Shocks in Stride | Weekly Market Commentary | April 13, 2026 Outside of energy commodities, capital markets posted a downbeat March as cross-asset volatility spiked in response to the outbreak of hostilities in the Mideast, and kicked off April in similar, choppy fashion before posting a swift bounce following last Wednesday’s two-week ceasefire agreement. ...

Earnings Likely to Grow Double-Digits Again; Will Markets Care? | Weekly Market Commentary | March 30, 2026 Earnings drive stock prices over time, but not all the time. Clearly, we’re in an environment where stocks are moving on developments in the Mideast and related moves in oil prices and interest rates. At the risk of writing about something that markets may not care much about right now, here we sh...

Private Credit Under Pressure: Liquidity Mismatches in an AI-Disrupted Cycle | Weekly Market Commentary | March 23, 2026 Corporate credit markets have become unsettled about the potential for advanced agentic AI tools from firms such as Anthropic and OpenAI to automate functions across legal, analytical, marketing, and sales workflows, effectively targeting the software as a service (SaaS)/enterprise software space. T...

Why Oil Prices Matter Less — But Still Move Headline Inflation | Weekly Market Commentary | March 16, 2026 Lower oil “intensity” — less oil used per dollar of economic output — means energy shocks have a smaller impact on growth than in past decades. And from the supply side, the U.S. is now a net exporter of petroleum products. Because we produce more than we import, the economy is less affected...