Markets responded very positively last week to comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on future monetary policy and to the prospect of easing trade tensions between the U.S. and China.

Equity markets had one of their worst weeks of the year last week with U.S. equity indices marking their lowest points since the first half of the year.

Spillover from geopolitical concerns in the European Union and the continued exodus from popular growth and momentum stocks weighed heavily on the broad equity markets last week and into early trading this week.

Despite broad declines late in the week, U.S. equities finished last week in positive territory overall following a bump from mid-term election results.

U.S. equities rallied last week to cap off October’s market rout that erased much of the year’s gains.