Current Conditions Index
- Over the past week, the LPL Financial Current Conditions Index (CCI) rebounded to 224 from 221 last week. The CCI sustained the rebound from 205 two weeks ago. However, the index has fallen from 249 back in February, reflecting weaker growth and echoing the spring and summer soft spots of the past two years. The path of the CCI remains consistent with continued, though sluggish, economic growth in the United States.
- The growth momentum in the index has softened with the 13- and 52-week change in the index declining. The fall in the CCI had echoed the spring and summer slides of 2010 and 2011, as the economy softened and stocks fell.
Lincoln Savings Bank and LSB Financial are pleased to provide the above commentary for the week of June 21, 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 at http://www.mylsb.com/investments/commentary.aspx
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The LPL Financial Research Current Conditions Index is a weekly measure of the conditions that underpin our outlook for the markets and economy. The CCI provides real-time context and insight into the trends that shape our recommended actions to manage portfolios. This index has proven to be a useful tool for investment decision making.
This weekly index is not intended to be a leading index or predictive of where conditions are headed, but a coincident measure of where they are right now. We want to track the conditions in real-time to aid in investment decision making. There are thousands of indicators-some lead the economy, some lag, while others merely offer a lot of statistical noise. We chose to create our own index tailored to the current environment to provide the clearest and most useful way to track conditions. The components of the CCI are periodically changed to retune the index to those factors most critical to the markets and economy so it may continue to be a valuable investment decision-making tool.
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