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In this edition of LPL Market Signals, LPL Financial strategists Quincy Krosby, Jeffrey Roach, and Lawrence Gillum discuss the midyear outlook along with what to expect with the unofficial kick off to earnings season and the economic data releases that may move markets this week.

The strategists note the first half of the year was characterized by market volatility and turbulence but, while volatility is expected to continue, markets may be in a good position to rebound given the expected resilience of the consumer and strength of corporate balance sheets. On the economy, the strategists noted that while inflationary pressures were likely to stay elevated this year, it is expected that inflationary pressures would likely come down over the course of 2022 and 2023.

The strategists then discussed the outlook for stocks after one of the worst starts to the year ever. While the first half was characterized by higher inflation levels and an expected aggressive response by the Federal Reserve (Fed), the team thinks that the Fed can be less hawkish- not dovish but just less hawkish, which should help markets move forward.

Bond market outlook was next with the strategists noting that as bad as the year has been, the silver lining is that value has been brought back into the bond market. With yields in many markets above longer term averages, now could be a good time to opportunistically invest in fixed income. Additionally, the strategists think that now that yields have increased this year, bonds may be able to regain the diversification benefits that traditionally accompany negative stock prices.

Finally, the strategists discuss the upcoming earnings data, which is especially important as markets try to assess whether the bear market—brought on by an aggressive Federal Reserve interest rate hiking campaign—will lead us into a recession and the inflation data set to be released on Wednesday. The consumer price index (CPI)—which has stayed stubbornly high when you include the volatile food and gas components but may have peaked when you strip out those volatile categories. Continued high non-core prices (food and energy), along with high prices of travel-related categories and tight labor markets remain worrisome for the Fed.

Read LPL Research’s Midyear Outlook: Navigating Turbulence.

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The Standard and Poor's 500, or simply the S&P 500, is a stock market index tracking the performance of 500 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.

The Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, or the Agg, is a broad base, market capitalization-weighted bond market index representing intermediate term investment grade bonds traded in the United States.

All index data is from FactSet.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.

Core CPI is a subset of the total Consumer Price Index (CPI) that excludes the highly volatile food and energy prices. It is released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics around the middle of each month. Compare to Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE); Core PPI; Producer Price Index (PPI).

Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) is a measure of price changes in consumer goods and services released monthly by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Personal consumption expenditures consist of the actual and imputed expenditures of households; the measure includes data pertaining to durables, nondurables, and services. It is essentially a measure of goods and services targeted toward individuals and consumed by individuals.

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