The U.S. Is in the Midst of a Historic Bull Market
- Most-hated S&P 500 rally poised to become second-longest
- Signs of fatigue growing from price charts to corporate profit
The Golden Era for Investing Could Be Ending
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A bull market that has been derided as fake, doomed and history’s most-hated just earned a new title: the second-longest ever.
Dodging and weaving through three 10 percent drops in the last 19 months while avoiding the 20 percent decline that denotes a bear market, the advance that began seven weeks after Barack Obama’s first inauguration in January 2009 has now lasted 2,607 days. That matches a rally from 1949 to 1956 which straddled the presidencies of Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Only the dot-com bubble of the 1990s lasted longer at 3,452 days.