{"id":702,"date":"2020-04-08T14:49:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/figure8investing.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2020-04-08T14:49:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:49:32","slug":"figure-8s-4q19-quarterly-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Figure 8\u2019s 4Q\u201919 Quarterly Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The year 2019 turned out to be a really good one for investors. In spite of trade wars, political uncertainties, and tangible signs of a potential slowdown ahead, markets around the world rallied. The US-based S&amp;P 500 finished up 9.1% for the quarter and 31.5% for the year 2019, while the global MSCI All Country World Index was similarly up 9.1% for the quarter and 27.3% for 2019. Bonds also delivered solid performance, with the Bloomberg Barclays Intermediate-Term Bond Index up 0.4% for the quarter and 6.8% for the year 2019.  Read more here&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/figure8investing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Figure-8-Quarterly-Commentary-4Q\u201919.pdf\">Figure 8&#8217;s 4Q&#8217;19 Quarterly Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2019 turned out to be a really good one for investors. In spite of trade wars, political uncertainties, and tangible signs of a potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.figure8investing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}