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Expectations for 2014:

  • Equities to modestly outperform fixed income and cash
  • U.S. economic growth of 2.9 per cent
  • obs gains that average 230,000 per month
  • Modest inflation of just 1.9 per cent
  • U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) tapering to begin in the first half, but no rise in the Fed funds rate until late 2015
  • U.S. 10-year treasury yield at 3.2 per cent by year end
  • Single-digit growth in corporate earnings to drive U.S. equity returns. Price/ Earnings (P/E) multiples to remain broadly unchanged.
  • Our target for the U.S. large-cap Russell 1000 Index at year-end 2014 is 1,060, while for the S&P500 Index it is 1,900.

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