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Tempered but Optimistic Enthusiasm Over Stocks

03/29/2022

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

As the stock market recovered from the 2020 pandemic lows, valuations reached levels not seen since the dotcom bubble more than 20 years ago. The reopening economy and massive fiscal stimulus helped fuel one of the strongest starts to a bull market ever (a bull market that just turned two-years-old last week). Low interest rates were a big part of the story. But just as low interest rates helped support stock valuations, that relationship can go in reverse as we’ve witnessed recently.

Read the full commentary here: Weekly_Market_Commentary_3.28.2022

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