It's still easy--five years into this bull market--to find above-average companies selling at below-average valuations.
This bull-headed attitude is causing these suppliers to take the whole market down with them.
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"I don't see any significant new supply to bring this bull market to an end, " he said.
Lemme compare this bull market with others going back to 1982 when Volcker snatched away the punch bowl.
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But remarkably, still, over 3 years and 9 months into this bull market, so many investors remain unconvinced.
However, media stocks have rebounded significantly in this bull market, and Kaplan gives WPO a diversification that other competitors cannot match.
If your hunch is that this bull still has legs, selectively buying fund company stocks might yet be a smart way to play it.
As such, the Debbie Downer crowd has been quick to remind me lately that this bull might be close to being done.
This bull vs. bear readings are similar to those in August, notes Arbeter, when the market was much lower than it is today.
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But it was that keep-the-faith individual, this bull market's greatest ally, who ended, at least for the time being, what could have been a global catastrophe.
As such, there was a rush to put money to work in stocks and the major indices broke to new highs for this bull market cycle.
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Billionaire money manager and Forbes columnist Kenneth Fisher put his readers on notice in a recent column: "Get ready for this bull market's second leg, " he wrote.
An early milestone of this bull run happened on April 17, 1991: The Dow reached 3, 004.46, passing its July 1990 high and posting its first close above 3, 000.
More than any other time in history, this bull market owes its strength to the Fed's unblinking determination to pump money into financial markets until the economic recovery becomes self-sustaining.
All we need to get this bull market going is cooperation from the euro versus the dollar and the Dow Transports, which have not confirmed the trends seen in the other markets.
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The good news is that our cycle work suggests that this bull has some life left and if history is any guide, a gain in excess of 20% may still be in the cards.
The DJIA wound up flirting with new highs for this bull market cycle while the market-leading Midcap and Smallcap indices once again marched to new all-time highs for the third day in a row.
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Many of the millions of Americans who have entered the stockmarket for the first time in this bull market had been expected to bail out of shares at the first whiff of trouble, and some big institutional investors sold heavily at the beginning of this week on that presumption.
If I am right, we should get another leg in this bull run that will lead to another doubling or tripling of stock prices and this will mean huge returns for those investors who have been patient enough to hold on to the stocks since the beginning of the run.
And what it's changing to is: Are you being too conservative in this new bull market?
Some of those stocks havent regained their pre-1974 multiples, even in this long bull market.
When General Motors and Chrysler and Jeep all said this is bull, what did he do?
Forty years of well-honed investing instincts makes Ab Nicholas believe this latest bull market is growing old.
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