Market Commentary Highlights...

• This week is the start of the fourth quarter 2011 earnings reporting season with big, well-known companies like Alcoa and JPMorgan Chase due to report fourth quarter results.

• This is the first quarter in over two years that S&P 500 profit growth is not expected to be in the double-digits.

• During this earnings season we are paying special attention to revenues and how companies are putting cash to work either by spending or by returning it to shareholders.

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Lincoln Savings Bank and LSB Financial are pleased to provide the above Market Commentary for the week of January 9, 2012. 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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