The chart of the day is courtesy Mark Hulbert via Marketwatch.com and shows the time taken for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to reach prior highs since the early 1900's. The current market has spent more than a year in trying to reach its prior high and has taken over 410 days to reach recent new highs, eclipsing the 379 days it took in the bull market correction of the 1990's making further new highs more and more elusive:
Is Something Starting To Break? Stocks Plummet And Bonds Go Nuts As
Economic Data Disappoints
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Are the financial markets headed for trouble? There was quite a bit of
panic on Wall Street on Thursday after more bad economic numbers were
released. ...
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