Bull Market

It's not just Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) skeptics who have been hit hard this year, as Benzinga noted yesterday. Short sellers in general have had such a terrible go of it that many have given up. That's according to a Bloomberg report today: "So harrowing has it been that bears are...

The S&P 500 bull market died on Thursday after an 11-year run that returned 400% and tripled earnings. It was the longest run in history and preceded in a day by its brother, The Dow. The bull had many brushes with death throughout its long history, from debt crises to oil crises and interest-...

The S&P 500 bull market set a new record for the longest in history this week, reaching 3,453 days in duration. Since the bull market began, the S&P 500 has gained 323.3 percent and the economy has dramatically improved. Unfortunately, some key metrics for everyday Americans haven’t...

David Tice of Tice Capital is one of the stock market's most notable and vocal bears. His own website even highlights the dangers of "investing near the end of a secular bull market" yet at the same time he believes an equally dangerous trade is betting against the bull market and...

As a whole, the stock market remains very strong although many individual stocks have fallen under pressure as of late. Absent any geopolitical tension and other external factors, investors can reasonably assume that many individual stocks will go higher, many will go lower but the market as a...

The current bull market for U.S. stocks turns eight this week, providing investors with an ideal opportunity to look back on some of the best-performing stocks and exchange-traded funds over the past eight years. This bull market's best-performing mid-cap ETF is the Guggenheim S&P MidCap...

There is little doubt among investors that the stock market's ability to shake off a jittery start to the year and the surprising Brexit voting result have been impressive. The analytically cautious outlook is also the view of analysts at Argus Research. In a research report dated Wednesday, the...

Byron Wien is Blackstone's vice chairman and a senior adviser to the world's largest alternative asset management firm. When he speaks, investors listen. And when he is bearish on the market, investors listen even more closely. Speaking to CNBC Wednesday afternoon, Wien said that 2016 will prove to...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch's analysts came up with a clever title for their latest research report, which reflects the current state of the bull market. Reuters, citing the research note simply titled 'Bear Capitulation,' reported that investors allocated the most cash into global equity funds...

By the end of this week, the post-Financial Crisis bull market will likely become the second longest bull market in history. It has now been 2,603 days since the S&P bottomed back in 2009. In that time, the market has surged an astonishing 209 percent. Going into this week, the current bull...

Arguably, depending on one's regional preferences, the greatest rapper of all-time died on March 9, 1997. What cannot be debated is that one of the worst bear markets in stocks died on March 9, 2010. The subsequent bull market, now seven years old, has been a boon for the growth of the exchange...

This bull market run officially turned seven years old today. This 84-month run is the third-longest on record, with the average lasting slightly less than 59 months, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. Reuters noted, "Though also above average, the gains are somewhat less impressive, with the...

Dennis Gartman of The Gartman Letter thinks the bull market is officially over. Gartman unveiled his thesis in a new note to subscribers on Wednesday morning: "We are, for the first time in years suggesting… indeed, we are stating it rather clearly…our belief that the global...