FINANCIAL BLOG

LPL Research provides its Weekly Market Performance for the week of April 20, 2026. Markets experienced another volatile week amid busy Mideast headlines, rising oil prices, and a busy earnings calendar. U.S. equities managed to push to record highs late in the week, supported by artificial intelligence enthusiasm and broadly strong first-quarter earnings, while ceasefire hopes offset ongoing tensions around the Strait of Hormuz that pressured sentiment.

As we wrote in our recent Rate and Credit View, the case for global bonds has strengthened as the structure of fixed income markets — and the sources of risk within them — have become increasingly asymmetric. The U.S. bond market represents less than half of global fixed income outstanding, yet many portfolios remain overwhelmingly concentrated in U.S. Treasuries and credit, effectively tying outcomes to a single fiscal authority, a single central bank, and domestic yield cur

LPL Research provides its Weekly Market Performance for the week of April 13, 2026. Markets posted a strong weekly advance as easing geopolitical tensions, solid earnings reports, and better-than-expected inflation signals fueled a risk-on tone. U.S. equities notched record highs on optimism around Middle East ceasefire developments and abating energy supply concerns, alongside upbeat artificial intelligence (AI) related takeaways.