The S&P 500 is up by over 16% YTD. Among the sectors, biotech is lagging the market with a return of about 9% while the Philadelphia semiconductor index has shot up nearly 27%. Markets have turned volatile in recent weeks with wild swings between one day and another. Stocks that reached a 52-week include:

• McDonald’s Corp. (MCD)
• AstraZeneca PLC ADR (AZN)
• Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT)
• NextEra Energy Inc. (NEE)
• American Tower REIT (AMT)

With that said, below are some interesting articles for this today:

• Seven safe havens (Fidelity UK)
• Most Investors Fail to Learn This One Thing (Young Research)
• Year-End Portfolio Checkup: 6 Tax-Smart Tips (Schwab)
• What to do when markets sell off (Vanguard)
• Universal Laws of the World (Collaborative Fund)
• Emerging Market Bargains May Lie in Communication, Tech Stocks (Bloomberg)
• 5 key investment themes for the remainder of 2019 and The pros and cons of gold (Blackrock)
• Forget the other emerging markets, focus on Southeast Asia (MoneyWeek)
• Global equity investing: The benefits of diversification and sizing your allocation (Vanguard)

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Disclosure: Long NEE