'Dry Powder' Runs Dry as Stocks Try to Break New Records

Is anyone left to light the fuse?
Photographer: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images
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Regardless of your opinion of technical analysis, it's hard not to be mesmerized watching the level of the U.S. stock market over the last two sessions.

You can play along at home, or office desk, or sailboat, or jail cell, or wherever it is you watch the market. Keep your eye on the number 2,117.69 for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. That's its last closing record from April 24.