Weekly market update: Trade talks—whose sick of hearing about them?!

Newsletter | February 20, 2019

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Todd Day, MBA

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Trade talks—whose sick of hearing about them?!

Let the record show that I am getting just as tired about typing subject lines related to Chinese trade talks as you are reading about them, but that’s the story once again last week as trade officials from both China and the U.S. have agreed to resume trade talks in DC this week. We ended the week on a modestly positive tone as we closed out the week and headed into the long holiday weekend. Not before the Dow climbed 3.2%, the NASDAQ rose 2.4%, the S&P 500 rose 2.5% and the small caps stocks as measured by the Russell 2000 led the charge—up 4.2% on the week …

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