FINANCIAL BLOG

LPL Research provides its Weekly Market Performance for the week of July 7, 2025. Returning from the Fourth of July holiday weekend, U.S. stocks closed narrowly mixed as investors digested a range of tariff headlines and the passage of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).

LPL Research provides its Weekly Market Performance for the week of June 30, 2025. U.S. stocks capped the holiday-shortened week with fireworks of their own, extending weekly gains and scoring the third record high of the week of the S&P 500. A better-than-feared jobs report fueled risk on sentiment heading into the long weekend, underpinned by upbeat trade headlines.

With investor focus now squarely back on U.S. equities as new all-time highs are in sight, we dig into why strategic allocations should still consider, despite recent outperformance and multiple expansion, diversification into international equities.