FINANCIAL BLOG

In investing, the goal is to find assets that appreciate. That can be accomplished in different ways. One way is to find businesses that aren’t growing very fast but can be purchased at a low enough valuation that the investment can perform well.

LPL Research provides its Weekly Market Performance for the week of April 27, 2026. U.S. equities advanced for a fifth straight week despite cautious sentiment driven by geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East, rising oil prices, and mixed reactions to AI-related developments and earnings. However, markets ultimately focused on positive takeaways and a broadly upbeat earnings backdrop.

The “American Industrial Renaissance” is an investment theme investors and allocators alike have probably been pitched several times, or at the very least heard about. Supply chains for manufactured goods have evolved to become more complex, while U.S. manufacturing employment as a share of total employment has steadily declined, leaving policy makers to grapple with the ramifications of a shrinking manufacturing base.