Although it is already early May, Spring has just recently arrived in much of the U.S. As the temperatures increase and flowers bloom, we are updating you on the state of financial markets at the end of April.

We’ve just completed the most turbulent quarter we’ve had in a long while, feeling like we have been on a roller coaster ride. On Thursday, March 29, 2018, on the last trading day before Good Friday and the last day of the first quarter, the S&P 500 Index rallied thirty five points, almost 1.4% higher than the day before.[1]