It was a relatively quite April for the financial markets with Large Cap stocks up 1.6% and Bonds up 2.8%. Leading the pack once again was Real Estate, which gained 7% in the first month of the second quarter. The market favored Small Cap Value Equities this month with those stocks also picking up 7% for the month. Large Cap Growth stocks, on the other hand, only picked up 1.2% in April as the market once again that it is far less correlated in a bull phase than it is in a bear market.

The only category that was not on the plus side of the score board this month was International stocks which fell 1.7%, thanks mostly to financial crisis in Greece. European stocks were hit with the double whammy of poor performance and a stronger dollar.

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