Market Summary
April 2015

In what is traditionally known as a strong time of year for stocks, the last 4 months have gone like this:
 

December - negative
January - negative
February - positive
March - negative

In last month's letter, I wrote that we expected March to begin with a pullback off of February's highs, followed by another push higher. I was ⅔'s correct.

March did begin with a pullback that lasted a couple weeks, followed by an upward run back up to test February's highs. However, the markets could not break through upward resistance, and ended up faltering, pushing lower - with the Dow falling into negative territory for the year.

We mentioned falling oil and a strong dollar as two reasons markets have been volatile and unable to push ahead last month. Let me throw in one more curveball: Greece.
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Market Summary Continued

Yes, good ol' Greece is once again in the news, as their government has still found no viable plan to present to the EU as to how they are going to manage their debt obligations. It is becoming clearer that a default and exit from the EU is likely, seeing as how the EU and IMF are saying they are tired of continually lending money to them without Greece holding up their end of the bargain. No more money means defaulting on pensions, salaries for government employees etc.

This has caused a stir amongst the world's markets, and volatility has been ramping up.

April is considered to be one of the year's strongest months. With earnings season starting, we will get a clearer picture on how the dollar is affecting companies' bottom lines. And even with a pickup in volatility over the last month, it has not been enough to stop out of our equity holding. Therefore, for us, there are no changes to the portfolio at this time.

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