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Why does this bull market get no respect?
The current bull market on Wall Street has one thing in common with late comedian Rodney Dangerfield: It don't get no respect! Numbers don't lie. The Standard and Poor's 500, an index of large-company U.S. stocks, eked out a fresh five-year high Thursday at 1,480.94. It is up 119 percent since the bull market began on March 9, 2009, which means it is a member of the so-called "100 percent Gain Club," and just one of nine bull markets in the benchmark index's history to post a triple-digit gain, according to Bespoke Investment Group. The current bull, which followed the worst bear market, or market plunge, since the ... (full story)
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