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CFO 2019 First Quarter Financial Markets Review and Outlook

U.S. stocks rallied strongly starting the New Year and continued to trend upward right through the end of first quarter.  The S&P 500 (the 500 largest publicly traded companies) was up +13.7% following last year's fourth quarter -14% decline.  The S&P 500 ended the first quarter just -3% below the market peak of 2931 recorded last September.  NASDAQ and growth-oriented stocks performed even better with the NASDAQ Composite up +16.5% for the quarter.  The dramatic dive in global stock markets during the fourth quarter was caused by investor capitulation that fed on itself manifesting in a mini-panic that accelerated during December.  Other events in the past have caused similar market disruptions, for example the 1990 Kuwait invasion, the 1998 Asian currency conflagration, and more recently the 2010-2011 European debt crisis all triggered sizable downturns in equity prices. Despite however real and powerful investor concerns seemed at all three of those periods of time, investor fears proved to be unfounded, and the global financial markets recovered strongly within six months following each of those mini-panics.   Caution was warranted at the end of 2018, but investors also needed to guard against emotions causing an over-reaction that would lead to missing out on the subsequent recovery rallies that unfolded shortly after the equity markets bottomed.....read more

  

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