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@Robert J. Teuwissen:
The first quarter was a troubled one. The positive start was mostly a reaction to the extreme negativism in December month. Sometimes things in the stock market are simple. When everyone is negative, the stock market can only go one way and that is up. That was the case at the end of December. As many as 85 percent of economists were counting on a recession, and the sentiment indicators swung to the extreme negative. Even if fundamentally things are not going well, that makes it a good time to get in. During the quarter, it appeared that the economy was doing so well that the recession scenario had to be moved to 2024 or even beyond. The flip side of that is that the inflation numbers did look stronger than had been anticipated. Now there are the necessary one-time effects and adjustments