From the Desk of CIO: Q4 Market Update

Macro Backdrop

In conjunction with a handful of impacts—1) escalating trade tensions with our largest nation-state partner, 2) a yield curve head-faking flatness, 3) a midterm elections balance shift, 4) the shuttering of the federal workforce as a border wall deal pawn, and 5) an expansion that was getting longer in the tooth—these factors stacked up as too burdensome for the equity markets to sustain.

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