By: Jeff Buchbinder, CFA, Equity Strategist, LPL Financial & Ryan Detrick, CMT, Chief Market Strategist, LPL Financial

The Federal Reserve (Fed) has engineered a massive hawkish shift, causing a bit more stock market volatility recently. But how worried should investors be? Here we take a look back at historical performance for stocks before, after, and much after initial Fed rate hikes to help reassure any nervous investors out there. We also take a quick look at what the Fed pivot could mean for growth/value and large cap/small cap trends given the maturing business cycle.

Read the full commentary here: weekly-market-commentary-1.18.2022