Market Commentary Highlights...

The markets may react negatively this week as a financial aftershock to the 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan this past Friday. However, the overall impact on markets is likely to be limited.

Following the devastating earthquake in Kobe, Japan in January 1995 the Japanese stock market fell 25% in the following five months.

The earthquake adds to the list of macroeconomic concerns that include the violence in Libya and Europe’s debt problems.

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