sure, as long as the presses roll, it will continue... 
Posted on 03/09/2014 8:14:23 AM PDT by shove_it
To Continue Gains, Stocks Are Liable to Rely More on the Economy Than Fed Support and Need Higher Corporate Profits
As the bull market turns five years old, stock investors have a lot to celebrate.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has soared 151% since stocks bottomed March 9, 2009, following the financial crisis. That ranks it fifth in gains among the 32 bull markets since 1900.
It also is tied for fifth-longest-running, in trading days, with the one that ended in 2007, according to Ned Davis Research.
If the current stock advance lasts another 16 trading days, it will be the fourth-longest, surpassing the one that ended in 1987...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
sure, as long as the presses roll, it will continue...
I’m not buying it, either figuratively or literally.
The stock market today is nothing more than a heroin addict, with a very generous pusher.
I don't think of it that way. We're five years in recovery from a crash...there is no where to go but up.
On top of that, Obama has done everything he can to kill the U.S. economy.
The real bull market will be that period following the election of a conservative, pro-business president!
This would be good news if the federal government weren’t screwing around with the market. I can’t have any faith in this market.
My perception is that the whole ball of wax depended on whether the government could convince folks it was sound.
Well, they did, for the most part. I’m not buying it.
How much of the market is owned by our federal government? I don’t know. If I did, it might scare the hell out of me.
Yep, its been good. Thank God for capitalism!
Are the numbers adjusted for inflation? If not, then they have to be adjusted.
100%
With interest rates so low there is nowhere else for money to go. In cash you lose to inflation. In bonds you will get hurt as interest rates rise. I see no other option but a conservative amount in stocks to stay afloat with lots in cash and a lot in low interest bearing instruments which is almost cash. One has to be able to ride the roller coaster for the stock portion. There are few options to park the money. Of course I am older and concerned with protecting what I have. If you are young you have more freedom to invest more aggressively.
That’s a valid concern. Larry Kudlow had a couple of guests on his radio show who brought a different perspective. Their general point was that the strength of the stock market is real, and it’s driven mainly by the ability of these large companies to increase profits dramatically with very little increase in their costs. Basically, there is such a glut of labor for many of these industries that a company can increase its productivity without hiring more workers or paying their existing workers more money.
Just keep pumping Mr. Fed! What could go wrong...
With interest rates so low there is nowhere else for money to go.
Another counter is that if the government does take over the retirement industry, exactly who is going to be buying the stock in my retirement plan. To paraphrase the Vampire economy regarding German stock trading in the late 30.s , “The stock market was still active but everyone knew it was a lie.”
But wealth does not provide cash anymore. A million dollars will only provide $10,000 of income, you have to think about that awhile.
Indeed once the presses stop the tumble starts.
and i used to think the WSJ was on the ball...
Volume is dropping.
I’d say courtesy of about 5 years of $85 Billion per month feeding the market through purchase of MBS’s and T-Bills.
FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS OF OUR MONEY. What’s not to be ‘Bull’ about that?
Oh that John Semmens and his . . . wait, what? This isn’t satire?
Yep. Remove the illegal $4+ trillion the fed dumped into the markets and test what the valuation would be. Remove the $18+ trillion in debt and watch the markets tank. Remove the $4 trillion annual budget and watch the markets tank.
i guess the WSJ is just another mouth piece for the mutt in the white hut now
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