If human productivity is measured by the stock market, it would have meant that nothing was achieved this year. As Shakespeare aptly phrased it, it was much ado about nothing, as regional equities gave up almost all gains by August after a hugely volatile trading year.
Equities rallied in the first three months of this year, fresh from the drastic decline in most equity markets in the last month of 2018.
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