Category: Macro Market Movers
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Weekly Market Performance — March 13, 2026
LPL’s Weekly Market Performance for the week of March 9, 2026, highlights geopolitical developments, earnings, and commodity moves and their impact on markets.
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Oil in the Driver’s Seat as Geopolitical Tensions Rise
LPL Research examines how the Iran conflict is influencing equity and oil markets.
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So…You Want to Build a Data Center
LPL Research explores what data center construction and operation tells us about the future of compute.
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Treasury Market: Stuck Between Iran and a SaaS Space
LPL Research examines how Treasury yields are caught between AI‑driven growth concerns and rising inflation pressures from escalating geopolitical risks.
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Weekly Market Performance — March 6, 2026
LPL Research provides its Weekly Market Performance for the week of March 2, 2026. Capital markets faced a challenging start to March as geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Iran, rising oil prices, and renewed inflation concerns pressured global equities and bonds…
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Managed Futures: Current Positioning and Geopolitical Risks
Managed futures strategies, also known as Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) or trend-followers, are designed for environments where macro shifts drive persistent price trends across equity, bond, commodity, and currency markets…
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Iran Escalation: How Markets Have Reacted to Geopolitical Events
As with the recent escalation in the Middle East, financial markets are constantly exposed to unpredictable events — from geopolitical conflicts and terror attacks to political transitions, corporate crises, and systemic financial shocks…
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Risk-On Appetite Strong in 2026: Fund Flows Recap
With February behind us, we conducted a deeper dive into exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows over the month and year-to-date (YTD) periods. Flows measure the net movement of cash into and out of investment vehicles, such as mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETF).
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Assessing the Impact of Developments in Iran: Watch Energy
Over the weekend, the United States and Israel conducted a coordinated series of missile and drone strikes against Iran, targeting several high-value military installations in an effort to hinder Iran’s nuclear development efforts…
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Weekly Market Performance — February 27, 2026
LPL Research provides its Weekly Market Performance for the week of February 23, 2026. U.S. stocks fell for the week as concerns about AI’s disruptive impact drove a broader risk‑off shift. Technology and banks weakened, while defensive sectors held up better.
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