4th Quarter Financial update 2009
The quarter in brief. The rally continued, the economy showed definite signs of improvement, and the biggest health care reform in decades inched toward reality. Stocks were hot, with the S&P 500 rising 5.49% for the quarter.1 Commodities were even hotter. A wave of buyers rushing to take advantage of federal credits helped the real estate market. World economies were growing healthier. By the quarter’s end, even practitioners of the dismal science were largely[…]