Short-term interest rates fell to historic lows, propping up consumer spending, but also fuelling the housing bubble and sowing the seeds of today's upheaval.
That said, the stock has started to change that trend a bit over the last month with shares making higher lows and setting up for higher highs.
The bull market off the March 2009 lows ended in the first week of August 2011 when the up trend off those lows broke.
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This was consistent with a sold-out market, and two days after the lows, volume picked up nicely and the daily candle formation was bullish.
Even though the technology sector has been out of favor for the past few months, it has been the star performer since the 2009 lows as it is up over 149% followed by the small cap Russell 2000 IWM.
Dollar bulls took the reins since May, pushing the greenback up 10% from spring lows, but with the U.S. dollar index up only about 1% from the end of 2010 the key will be how to keep the drive on track in 2012.
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From the mid-May lows, the Dow was up 32% by the end of the year.
Despite his conviction that stocks will remain in a bear market until a retest of the lows and a strong move up on high volume, Martchev's portfolio is currently 70% long on stocks.
Masanori Azuma, head of debt capital markets at Nomura, compared it to a "bazooka" shot of easing that likely means yields on Japanese government bonds, while still near record lows, can only go up from here.
Nymex crude oil prices were weaker Monday but up from the early lows.
The housing market seems to be recovering, and mortgage rates have begun to creep up from their historic lows last summer.
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The gold market did move up from its daily lows when a weaker-than-expected U.S. consumer confidence index reading was released Tuesday morning.
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This news built upon improving investor risk appetite after the U.S. stock indexes on Tuesday closed well up from their daily lows.
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As the real estate market roared, FHA lending dropped to historic lows, only to rev back up once the subprime mortgage market bottomed out.
All three major US indexes started the day at or near their intraday lows and slowly worked their way up, paring some of the losses.
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However, prices ended up from their session lows as the U.S. dollar index sold off late and crude oil prices rebounded from their earlier lows.
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U.S. stock indexes moved up from their daily lows by afternoon trading Tuesday, which boosted the commodity markets and in turn gave a modest upside push to gold and silver.
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Once the up trend connecting the lows since March 2009 broke, I stated that we were in a new bear market ( See Welcome To The New Bear Market For Stocks).
The Dow Jones Transportation Average has been a market leader since the 2009 lows, but the index gave up that leadership in May when the weekly on-balance volume (OBV) formed a negative divergence.
While the yield is up 23% from the lows, it is still well below the 20-month EMA at 3.64%.
"From the lows of cancellation to the fans rising up, it's been an amazing journey for us, " said Skeet Ulrich, who plays Jake Green on the show.
For Nicole Kidman, that window has served up a host of highs and lows in recent months.
Pfizer shares have been carving out new 52-week highs daily, with the stock up 25% from its November lows.
Baytex is up 5-fold since the lows in 2009 where most CRTs have at most doubled from depressed levels.
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Today the price of what Keynes called the barbarous relic is the highest it's been since 1980, up 150% from its 2001 lows.
Despite the eroding macro landscape and the fact that default rates are up from the near-record lows of late 2011, managers are hardly channeling Chicken Little.
And he includes the lyric: This morning, I woke up feeling brand new and I jumped up feeling my highs and my lows in my soul, in my goals just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin'.
My recommended buy level in Global X Silver Miners ( SIL) has not yet been hit and one may have to wait until the flag formation has been completed. (I will update my recommendations on Twitter, if needed) A break of the recent lows is still possible, which should set up a good buying opportunity.
American oil stocks have been creeping up again after hitting 26-year lows earlier this year.
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