Markets are up this year – the S&P 500 has gained 14% year-to-date, while the NASDAQ is up an even more impressive 30% – and are close to erasing last year’s losses. Along with the market gains, the high inflation that plagued us for over a year, peaking at 9.1% annualized last June, has now subsided to just 4% annualized as of last month. These changes have come hand-in-hand with an improvement in investor sentiment; a positive mood that has been both influenced by and fed into the market gains