Financial Markets Update

September 5, 2019

First Western’s Chief Investment Officer, John Sawyer discusses the current state of the markets, including recent volatility and the yield curve inversion.  Mr. Sawyer will also be joined by Karen Post, Managing Director of Equities and David Stern, Director of Investment Research.

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