February – 2018 Newsletter
Your SIS newsletter is coming to you a bit later this month because just after we prepared the letter at the end of January, the markets took a dramatic turn in early February, which I wanted to touch upon. The year-to-date stock market numbers above were severely impacted after the first few trading days in February when the major market indices all suffered historic drops.1 Concerns over inflation, debt, and rising interest rates were all cited as factors in the steep sell-off.