There was no shortage of volatility-inducing economic and geopolitical events in April. The month began with meetings between President Trump and the leader of China with implications for trade and currencies, followed by weak employment growth, missile and bomb strikes in Syria and Afghanistan, and rising risk of war with North Korea. The month ended with critical French elections, strong corporate earnings releases, weak first quarter GDP growth, the release of a tax reform proposal, and the first days of the new administration behind us.

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At the end of it all, investors looked past current events to future growth prospects, allowing domestic and global equity markets to continue their strong start to the year. The positive implications of de-escalating trade tensions between the U.

Non-farm employment rose by 98,, well below the , that was forecast. Production fell by 0. An unseasonably warm winter also hurt growth by cutting into spending on utilities.

For a variety of reasons, investors appear to be treating this weakness as temporary and are looking to leading indicators of future growth.

The first-quarter growth is traditionally the slowest growing quarter each year. If that number holds as the rest of companies report, it will be the highest year-over-year earnings growth number since Bond markets and interest rates continue to trade in a narrow range as they dissect competing views of growth, inflation and central bank policies.

Outside of the U. European equities were also supported by the announcement that while downside economic risks were diminished, underlying inflation pressures are weaker than the European Central Bank wants to see before reducing its asset purchases.

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Emerging market stocks continue to outperform developed market equities, due in part to capital inflows from investors attracted to faster earnings growth, strengthening emerging market currencies and a more attractive risk premium than can be earned on U.

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