FINANCIAL BLOG

LPL Research provides its Weekly Market Performance for the week of October 20, 2025. U.S. stocks logged another weekly advance amid thawing trade tensions and a flurry of third quarter earnings. Investors also ended the week on a bright note, posting a solid rally after the delayed release of consumer inflation data for September helped underpin Federal Reserve (Fed) rate cut expectations.

In corporate credit markets, early indicators of stress often emerge subtly — not through dramatic dislocations, but through nuanced shifts in borrower behavior and market dynamics. Much like canaries in coal mines once signaled invisible threats, and Jamie Dimon’s warning about “cockroaches” in credit markets hinted at more credit events to come, recent developments in the leveraged credit space suggest areas of vulnerability are worth monitoring.

LPL Research provides its Weekly Market Performance for the week of October 13, 2025. Major U.S. averages ended a volatile week higher amid a flurry of headlines. Lingering trade tensions, the unofficial earnings season kick-off, and sudden regional bank jitters sparked up-and-down trading for most of the week, while international markets ended mixed amid local political developments and earnings.