Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It is Friday, January 11th, and we're talking about stocks for 2019.

I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I've got Fool

dot com's Brian Feroldi on Skype. Brian what's going on? Hey Dylan happy

Friday to you. Happy Friday are you guys supposed to be getting snow this weekend?

I have no idea, but my weekend is going to be filled with football. My New England Patriots

have a playoff game, and more importantly, my son's indoor flag football team has a tournament going on so that's what if it snows or not I don't care how about you

You just had to twist the knife there Brian you know that I'm from New Jersey. You know that I'm a Jets fan

I don't need to be hearing about the Patriots right now, all right? I get it.

I'll make sure you know exactly what's going on with the Patriots, Dylan. It's bad enough with Chris Hill and Matt Arger Singer. I don't need to be hearing it from from you too, Brian.

Yeah, it's a rough time of the year to be a Jets fan. It's also a rough time of the year for the stock market.

I mean, we've been looking at some pretty strong returns for the

S&P 500 over the last couple years. 2018 was the first year since the great

recession that the S&P 500 logged a down year and that final result was down 4.38%.

Brian, I feel like heading into 2019, there are probably a lot of investors trying to forecast

whether the bull market we've come to know is going to keep going

or if maybe this is the time to think about what they own and what's available

for them you know maybe a little bit shorter term than they normally would.

Yeah, this is given the recent volatility. It can be a good time to for investors to look at their portfolio

and reassess their exposure.

In some cases, if the recent downturn caused people a lot of anxiety or they were up, they

lost sleep over it, it can be useful to go through and de-risk your portfolio by moving

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