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Market Milestone: 9 Years, 5 Months, 13 Days
Market Milestone:
9 Years, 5 Months, 13 Days
the rundown
Aug 22, 2018 3:20 PM CDT

Market Milestone: 9 Years, 5 Months, 13 Days

The longest bull market in history is on the books

(Newser) - Dot-com bubble, eat your heart out: The S&P 500 has marked its longest-running bull market ever by going 3,454 days since hitting a low point in March 2009, the Wall Street Journal reports. Despite inching down a point Wednesday to 2,861, per the AP , the storied blue-chip...

Dow Sprints to 26K
Dow Jones Blows by 26K
Jan 16, 2018 8:51 AM CST

Dow Jones Blows by 26K

If it closes above milestone, it will set a breathtaking record for 1K-point gain

(Newser) - The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened above 26,000 for the first time Tuesday morning, and the Wall Street Journal reports that the latest 1,000-point rise took only a dizzying and record seven trading days. The asterisk to that record is that it won't be official until the...

Bull Market Is 8 Years Old. How Long Can It Last?
Wall Street's Bull Market
Celebrates a Milestone
the rundown
Mar 9, 2017 8:42 AM CST

Wall Street's Bull Market Celebrates a Milestone

It's 8 years old, but how can it last?

(Newser) - Thursday is a Wall Street milestone: The bull market that began on March 9, 2009, turns 8 years old, making it the second-longest such run in history. (It would need to go another year and a half or so to match the record from 1990 to 2000.) Some coverage:...

Don't Blame Greece; Market Was 'Ripe for a Fall'

If Greek worries were the cause, gold wouldn't be soaring

(Newser) - For months now, traders have suspected that the bullish market is heading for a big correction. We may have just seen step one, writes Mark Hulbert at MarketWatch . Lots of people are blaming Greek debt fears for today's turbulence , but they should instead look to the gold market. "If...

This Rally Is for Suckers, Courtesy of the Fed
This Rally Is for Suckers, Courtesy of the Fed
OPINION
May 12, 2009 9:37 AM CDT

This Rally Is for Suckers, Courtesy of the Fed

(Newser) - The Dow has soared a whopping 30% since March 9, but Andy Kessler doesn’t think the good times are here again. “This sure smells to me like a sucker’s rally,” he writes in the Wall Street Journal. Earnings aren’t up. The market is just responding...

Soaring Iraq Stock Market Gets Electronic Trading

Booming exchange will do away with writing prices on whiteboards

(Newser) - Stock traders in Baghdad are preparing for a bonanza: the introduction of electronic trading, which will replace the current system of writing prices on whiteboards, reports the Times of London. Iraq's market has risen 30% this year as improved security and dirt-cheap prices—the most expensive stock costs about 9...

Asia, Europe Follow US Rally
 Asia, Europe 
 Follow US Rally 
MARKETS
Mar 11, 2009 6:04 AM CDT

Asia, Europe Follow US Rally

Nikkei posts biggest gain in 6 weeks

(Newser) - Yesterday's big day on Wall Street sparked a bull run on Asian markets today, with the Nikkei posting its biggest rise in 6 weeks, Reuters reports. The Tokyo exchange surged 4.6% off a 26-year closing low, with Toshiba and other tech stocks leading advances. Markets in Europe opened down...

Is a Bull Market on the Horizon?

Lower rates and commodity prices and stocks that looks cheap could trigger a run

(Newser) - Apocalyptic attitudes abound, but weed through the financial doom and gloom and you'll find a few economists who think we've bottomed out, and that a bull market is up next, writes Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times. The Dow has dropped 34.6% in the last year, but recent...

Volatile Market Hooked on Testosterone

Study pinpoints role of bullish hormone in boorish traders

(Newser) - The buying and selling of the world's wealth is at the mercy of aggressive men and their hormonal fluctuations, neuroscientists have discovered. While that doesn't come as a big surprise, the study isolates the major role that testosterone plays in making boorish traders exceptionally bullish—and the part the hormone...

Goldman Sachs Switches Forecasters
Goldman Sachs Switches Forecasters
Mar 18, 2008 6:39 AM CDT

Goldman Sachs Switches Forecasters

'Belle of the bull market' Cohen has more pessimistic successor

(Newser) - Goldman Sachs has replaced its famously bullish chief forecaster, Abby Joseph Cohen,  with a less upbeat analyst, Bloomberg reports. Cohen will remain as senior investment strategist, handing over the daily predictions to David Kostin. Kostin sees a decline for the S&P 500 to 1160 in the short run,...

5 Signs That Augur the Fall of the Bull

A look at reliable indicators that the bear market is ascendant

(Newser) - After reaching a high in mid-July, the Dow has taken a sharp downturn. But how do you know when the bloom is off the rose? Here are Money magazine's five signs that usually precede a fall:
  1. Sudden surge in oil prices
  2. Treasury yields run up

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