Last week, U.S. stocks increased.  Bonds declined. And Foreign Stocks remained unchanged. During the last 12 months, STOCKS outperformed BONDS.

Returns through 10-6-2017                                              1-week        Y-T-D        1-Year       3-Year     5-Year     10-Year
Bonds- BarCAp Aggregate Index                                       -.1              3.0               .4              2.5           2.1            4.3
US Stock-Standard & Poor’s 500                                       1.2            15.7            20.4          11.4          14.2             7.4
Forgein Stocks- MS EAFE Developed Countries             .0            19.9            19.5            5.7            7.9             1.2

Source: Morningstar Workstation. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.  Indices are unmanaged and cannot be invested into directly.  Three, five and ten year returns are annualized excluding dividends.

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