Special Quarterly Update: Stocks Post Strong Gains in Q1

The first quarter of 2017 is now behind us, and although we won’t have complete economic data for a while, we do know that domestic stocks had a solid start to the year.  Last week, major indexes took a pause from some recent gains and began the second quarter of 2017 with less than thrilling performance.  The S&P 500 lost 0.30%, the Dow was down 0.03%, the NASDAQ gave back 0.57%, and the MSCI EAFE declined 0.72%.  For this week’s update, we’re going to examine what happened to markets in the first quarter.

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