By: Jeffrey Buchbinder, CFA, Equity Strategist, LPL Financial & Ryan Detrick, CMT, Chief Market Strategist, LPL Financial, Lawrence Gillum, CFA, Fixed Income Strategist, LPL Financial,  Barry Gilbert, PhD, CFA, Asset Allocation Strategist, LPL Financial

With Halloween over the weekend, what better to write about this week than what scares us? If our positive near-term market outlook proves to be overly optimistic, we believe one—or perhaps more than one—of these five things will likely be the culprit: inflation, an aggressive Federal Reserve, profit margin pressures, pulling forward of seasonal gains, and potentially overly bullish sentiment.

Read the full commentary here: Weekly_Market_Commentary_11.01.21