The rising Japanese stock market is another sign that economic expectations are starting to shift and animal spirits to stir.
They point to a rising stock market as a sign that Americans are shrugging off the sequester's effects, and accuse the White House of preparing to manipulate the cuts to gain political leverage.
The economic news last week was generally quite good and supported my view from last October that the strength in the stock market was a sign that the economy was really better than expected.
But buying the Dodgers now comes with a unique opportunity to launch a potentially lucrative regional sports network in the country's second-largest market, or sign a new local broadcast deal with the current broadcaster, News Corp.
Unlike in, for example, the European sovereign bond market, there is no sign of contagion in the US muni market.
We just got more bad housing news, more suggestions that the U.S. housing market is collapsing, which is more of a sign that housing market problems are spreading like a contagion to the rest of the economy.
This has indicated that fewer and fewer stocks were pushing the stock market to new highs and was a sign of a technically weak market.
Those businesses will have capital to reinvest at the first sign of market recovery.
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For skeptics such as Intrepid Capital Management President Mark Travis, slimmer discounts are another sign the market is getting frothy.
It is impossible to tell at this point whether this current market action is a sign of a longer-term trend.
Its entry into the rare disease market is one more sign that these super-niche drugs continue to be on the rise.
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The splash of four IPOs nearly at once could be a sign the market is hungry for new shares to buy.
When this borrowing rises, it can suggest that individual investors are becoming too comfortable with risk, a sign the market is overheated.
"From a technical perspective, this market has bull written all over it, " says Stack, who also points to improving market breadth as a sign of recovery.
Universities with a high drop-out rate tend to keep quiet about it or, if they do own up, to market it as a sign of academic rigour.
In another sign the market was in a defensive mode, the Dow Jones Utility Index was the only major barometer to move higher, gaining 3.07 points to 433.44.
U.S. credit spreads barely widened, a sign of market stability.
But even readers who love Facebook, or at least cannot imagine life without it, should see its stock market failure as a sign of the commercial limits of the Internet.
It is interesting that the business association (Fedecameras) complains about the fact that petro-dollars circulating in the market are not a sign of economic strength, because there are shortages of food, medicines and materials.
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But to be fair to both sides, I also question the wisdom of the idea that the current pullback in stocks is a sign that market players are concerned about the economy (or Greece, China, etc.).
Indeed, mutual funds that used options for either speculation or hedging from July 2003 to June 2007 showed no sign of market-beating returns after adjusting for risk, according to a working paper by Gjergji Cici, an assistant professor at the College of William and Mary.
If they hold, it will also be a very constructive sign for the market.
This, by itself, is one early sign that a market bottom may be close at hand for gold.
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And very few and the more rigidly free market ones at that to sign up to the strong.
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The volatility that we have experienced in the past 60 days in this market is a huge warning sign.
Many will likely do so at the first sign of a market pullback.
Strength in the tech sector was the latest promising sign for the market.
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This is also a sign that current market strength is based upon pure speculation based upon a foolish monetary policy.
Since 1993 15% of charter schools have shut their gates, most because of low enrolment, a sign that the market is working.
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