The Stocks Bull is Back! S&P 500 New All-Time Closing High by 0.001%

By: PhilStockWorld

Courtesy of Doug Short: The S&P 500 rose today on a relatively unremarkable Producer Price Index and a surprisingly strong Empire State Manufacturing report. The index opened at its intraday low with a 0.09% gain. It then rallied to its all-time intraday high, up 0.65%, shortly after 11 AM. It then traded in a narrow range for the rest of the day, closing with a trimmed gain of 0.52%. That was enough to set a new all-time closing high by the 0.02 points — up 0.001% from its previous closing high on December 31st.

Here is a 15-minute look at the week so far.

The yield on the 10-year note rose 2 bps to 2.90% and is now 14 bps from its 3.04% interim high at the end of 2013.

Volume on today’s advance was the highest of 2014.

Here is a longer perspective, starting with the all-time high prior to the Great Recession.

For a better sense of how these declines figure into a larger historical context, here’s a long-term view of secular bull and bear markets in the S&P Composite since 1871.

- Phil

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Philip R. Davis is a founder of Phil's Stock World (www.philstockworld.com), a stock and options trading site that teaches the art of options trading to newcomers and devises advanced strategies for expert traders. Mr. Davis is a serial entrepreneur, having founded software company Accu-Title, a real estate title insurance software solution, and is also the President of the Delphi Consulting Corp., an M&A consulting firm that helps large and small companies obtain funding and close deals. He was also the founder of Accu-Search, a property data corporation that was sold to DataTrace in 2004 and Personality Plus, a precursor to eHarmony.com. Phil was a former editor of a UMass/Amherst humor magazine and it shows in his writing -- which is filled with colorful commentary along with very specific ideas on stock option purchases (Phil rarely holds actual stocks). Visit: Phil's Stock World (www.philstockworld.com)

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