The S&P 500 and NASDAQ both closed at all-time highs on Friday. This adds to the already euphoric attitude most market participants had going into 2024. Nothing is on the horizon that can stop the stock train, or at least that's the current perception. For what it's worth,
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“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” – John Maynard Keynes
“Quotations fluctuate constantly, reacting often illogically to all sorts of temporary and even trivial influences.” – Benjamin Graham
“The Stock Market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both
The S&P 500 has risen 20% off the lows from last October, leading the financial media to declare a "new bull market". I cringed when the media declared a bear market simply because the market dropped 20% from its high. When the market first crossed the 20% threshold
The stock market is supposed to be "efficient", at least according to academics (and those firms who have bought into this theory). Supposedly, the market (mostly) reflects all known information. In my experience this is not even close to reality. There have been dozens of times where we see a
