Now at the bull market’s one-and-a-half-year mark, it’s notable that every major stock index has trailed the average path for a new bull market at this point in a cycle. But, it’s unfair to liken today’s bull with past bulls, because it has a unique adverse trait that is apt to be life-shortening: It arose during an economic expansion—and likely in the latter stages, considering the unemployment rate was 3.5%.
May
07
2024