Market Commentary Highlights...

• As September draws to a close, we are ending what has traditionally been the best four-quarter period for stocks during the four-year Presidential cycle.

• Since World War II, the stock market has always posted a double-digit gain from the end of the third quarter of year two to the end of the third quarter of year three of the Presidential cycle. To retain that spotless track record the S&P 500 would need to post a gain of 3.5% in the next two weeks.

• As we look out to next year’s elections, the party that gains control will forge the decisions
  that will represent one of the biggest shifts in the federal budget policy since WWII with profound impacts for investors.

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Lincoln Savings Bank and LSB Financial are pleased to provide the above Market Commentary for the week of September 22, 2011. The commentary is prepared by LPL FINANCIAL RESEARCH, the broker-dealer partner for Lincoln Savings Bank and LSB Financial. The above commentary and others like it can be found here.

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