This has been
a bull market which has climbed a wall of worry ever since.
And it should extend for quite some time, and I will close it by saying, as you indicated, this is
a bull market which has lasted a very long time.
Or is it the bears, who see the FTSE 100 at record highs and a near - decade old
bull market which must be well into -LSB-...]
This is an old
bull market which is one of the longest and one of the most profitable.
According to an article in [Quartz](March 9, 2017, marks the 8th birthday of the US
bull market which started on March 9, 2009.
The most recent trigger occurred in September 2009 which indicated a bull market, we are still currently in
this bull market which has returned a 50 % gain to date.
Dow only has 30 stocks, SP500 is more popular benchmark for equity index, QQQ is still in
bull market which keeps making new highs.
The bear market returns are generally comparable for all of the screens and indexes; however, the Graham Enterprising Investor Revised screen has really shone during the most recent
bull market which was calculated from the end of February 2009 through March 2012.
As we discussed a few moments ago, crude oil is most likely in a cyclical
bull market which began in 2016.
The charts indicate not only how we far we are in the current secular
bull market which started around 2001, but it also puts it into perspective with data over the 20th century and even the centuries before.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The U.S. stock market is in a 9 year
bull market which makes many investors skeptical of the continued likelihood of market out performance.
We are entering the final leg of the first stage of the secular
bull market which began in 2009.
There is one major difference in today's bull market versus previous
bull markets which could cause all global equity prices to move substantially higher.
Since 1990 we have had three major
bull markets which the indicator has signaled.
Not exact matches
Regardless of the reason, the
bull market quickly spread to other cryptocurrencies, furthering the volatility for
which the
market is known.
In order to track this, he maintains the BAML
Bull & Bear Indicator,
which provides a signal for
market sentiment.
«Our base case (and framework) remains that we are in a secular
bull market,
which started in March 2009 and will continue beyond 2013.
The findings correlate with an uneven year for business in 2015, due to stock
market volatility in the third quarter,
which ended a long
bull run in the wake of weakening global economies and a devaluing of China's currency.
Which is unheard - of in an eight - year
bull market.
At the time, the former investment banker was making noise about taking the world's largest economy off life support,
which helped
market bulls roar into the new year.
During a webcast presenting his 2017 outlook, Gundlach, the founder of DoubleLine Capital, said certain «second - tier» managers were focusing on 2.6 % as an important level for the 10 - year Treasury yield — a threshold beyond
which the
bull market in bonds would end.
In general, so - called value stocks — often defined as those trading at earnings multiples below the
market average or their own historical norms — have tricked a lot of investors in the most recent phase of the current
bull market,
which has worn on nearly seven and a half years.
Shares of GGP,
which invests in shopping centers, is up more than 7,000 percent since the
bull market started on March 9, 2009.
Although value stocks typically hold up better in times of volatility, this
bull market has been exceptionally smooth — up until the last year, that is — and favored high - growth momentum stocks,
which tend to have more expensive valuations.
Further, there was little buying of protection,
which is often seen as a trait of
bull markets.
The wealthy own most of the assets in the world
which is why most people don't feel the same amount of satisfaction in a
bull market.
In
bull markets, investment decisions are often influenced by price anchors,
which are prices deemed significant because of their closeness to recent prices.
It has been 9 years since the
market bottomed during the financial crisis,
which is historically on the long side for a
bull market.
«M&A activity globally is very high,
which is common in the late stages of an equity
bull market as both private equity and corporate owners look to cash in on rich valuations,» Lait explains.
In
bull markets, when a
market makes a new high consistently, every day a large heard of bearish traders are getting stopped out of short positions and liquidating,
which fuels yet more buying.
Using widely known ETFs, your faculty will show you
which sectors prosper in
bull markets, and
which thrive in bear
markets.
Naturally, everyone piled into it, especially after the financial crisis,
which was the biggest
bull market in volatility the world had ever seen.
In addition, all of this happened following the nine - year anniversary of the
bull market,
which began on March 9, 2009, and 10 years after the bailout of Bear Stearns.
Prior to the advance of recent years, the list of these instances was: August 1929, the week of the
bull market peak; August 1972, after
which the S&P 500 would advance about 7 % by year - end, and then drop by half; August 1987, the week of the
bull market peak; July 1999, just before an abrupt 12 %
market correction, with a secondary signal in March 2000, the week of the final
market peak; and July 2007, within a few points of the final peak in the S&P 500, with a secondary signal in October 2007, the week of that
bull final
market peak.
(By the way, a
bull market is a period in
which the value of the
market increases at least 20 percent.)
The benchmark index SPX, -0.23 % has posted a record close 151 times so far during the latest cyclical
bull market,
which is about half of the number of all - time highs during the 1990 - 2000 cycle, according to Stovall, who said the high number of all - time highs is not an indication of future disappointments.
As a result, I tended to hoard cash,
which is suboptimal in a
bull market.
The favorable
market performance associated with many historical economic expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times peak earnings in the first year of the
bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity,
which typically emerges almost immediately in the form of a powerful breadth thrust off of a bear
market low, and is confirmed within a few weeks by much broader trend uniformity.
We agree with the
bulls and believe that even if Best Buy loses
market share, it can use excess capital to repurchase shares,
which would allow the company to achieve above - average per - share earnings growth.
It was those corrections
which ultimately drove the reset
which created the conditions for the new
bull market to commence.
Another reason why stocks continued to rise after the crash was that the Japanese economy and stock
market was embarking on its own massive
bull market,
which helped to pull the U.S. stock
market to previously - unforeseen heights.
We may just be in the «half - time break» of a
bull market...... a firm foundation (
which could become a «launching pad») under the stock
market...
The argument WDAY
bulls assert is that profits don't matter now as WDAY is boosting spending on sales and
marketing and product development to spur revenue growth,
which was 71 % last year.
Historically,
bull market advances have averaged 3.75 years, during
which time stocks rise at an average rate of 28 % annualized.
There's been a 35 - year secular fixed income
bull market,
which is no great revelation, but people are starting to lose faith in central banks.
Based on the long - term chart pattern, XLE is still clearly in a secular
bull market (
which officially began in July 2002).
Below is the 2 year daily chart for the SPX
which shows its 2016
bull market uptrend channel with the price action testing the bottom rail with the high, down to up volume spike on Monday.
Jonathan Krinsky, chief
market technician at MKM Partners, notes that the S&P 500's cumulative advancers - versus - decliners line has broken out to new highs,
which suggests increasing participation among
bulls.
Which is not to say that it couldn't be the biggest
bull market of Richard Bernstein Advisors» career — the company is just 4 years old.
In other words, the current
bull market is aging,
which increases the probability of a bear
market.