April brings showers, baseball, tax deadlines, and historically,the best month of the year for the S&P 500 Index (over the last 20 years). The S&P 500 had its best first quarter since 1998. And in March we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the current bull market. Although the U.S. economy may have hit a soft patch to start 2019, the fundamentals supporting economic growth and corporate profits lead us to believe the bull market and this economic expansion could continue. Read more here… Q1 Economic Update