Weekly Market Performance | May 8, 2026

LPL Research Last Updated: May 08, 2026 LPL Research provides its Weekly Market Performance for the week of May 4, 2026. U.S. equities advanced despite ongoing geopolitical volatility, as investors increasingly focused on strong corporate earnings, resilient economic...

April Flow Trends Highlight Equity Strength

April Rotation: U.S. Large Caps Regain Dominance Jeff Buchbinder | Chief Equity Strategist Last Updated: May 07, 2026 Additional content provided by Kent Cullinane, CFA, Sr. Analyst, Research. With April behind us, we conducted a deep dive into exchange-traded fund...

Gold is Doing its Job, But Not the One You Expect

Kristian Kerr | Head of Macro Strategy Last Updated: May 06, 2026 Additional content provided by Brian Booe, Associate Analyst, Research. Gold’s behavior since the escalation of conflict in the Middle East has been, at first glance, counterintuitive. Periods of...

How Portfolio Managers Are Thinking About 2026

Scott Froidl | Senior Investment Analyst Last Updated: May 05, 2026 In Q1 2026, I stepped into the role less of an interviewer and more of an investigator, sitting across the table from 35 portfolio management teams covering mutual funds, ETFs, and SMAs in large cap...