{"id":4854,"date":"2021-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/first-quarter-market-recap\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:29:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:29:34","slug":"first-quarter-market-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/12\/first-quarter-market-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"First Quarter Market Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
After a dramatic and emotional year for financial markets in 2020, stocks and bonds have taken divergent paths to begin 2021. Stocks have continued to climb higher, while the price of bonds has declined. This is a result of higher economic growth expectations, which leads to higher bond yields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is a chart of the yield on a 10-year US government bond over the past year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n