By: Jeffrey Buchbinder, CFA, Chief Equity Strategist, LPL Financial & Jeffrey Roach, PhD, Chief Economist, LPL Financial

The market pundits remain intensely focused on the question of whether the U.S. economy is in or about to enter recession, so we thought a piece on what a recession might mean for the stock market would be of interest. While Friday’s strong jobs report provides more evidence that the U.S. economy is not currently in recession, odds are still perhaps a coin flip or better that one may come in the next year. Here we update changing recession prospects and what that might mean for stocks.

Read the full commentary here: weekly-market-commentary-8.8.2022