Four experts weigh in on key market factors for 2019. Here's what you need to know

Four experts weigh in on what effects earnings, economic data and the Fed could have on the markets next year. • Jeff Saut, chief investment strategist at Raymond James, thinks we've hit a low, and the fleeting hopes of a so-called Santa Claus rally could come to fruition. If that low holds up, I think you've started the Santa Claus rally." Saut is also optimistic that the rally will continue into the new year, and that growth will keep going strong.