{"id":3164,"date":"2016-04-13T17:40:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T21:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.223.13.186\/~zacksim\/bull-market-says-im-not-dead-yet\/"},"modified":"2022-02-26T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:22:20","slug":"bull-market-says-im-not-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/bull-market-says-im-not-dead-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bull Market Says, \u201cI\u2019m Not Dead Yet\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many are crying out to the markets, \u201cbring out your dead\u201d, this bull is letting us know \u201cI\u2019m not dead yet!\u201d On March 9th, 2009, the current bull market was born \u2013 and it is still alive today. Indeed, March 9th 2016 marked this bulls 7<sup>th<\/sup> \u201cbirthday\u201d making it one of the longest on record. During this time, the S&amp;P 500 index rose by approximately 190% making this one of the biggest bulls on record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The S&amp;P 500 since March 9, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2016-04-14-BullMarket-Image1.png\" src=\"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2016-04-14-BullMarket-Image1.png\" alt='2016-04-14-BullMarket-Image1.png' width=\"610\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This uptrend not only reflects America&#8217;s recovery from the Great Recession but also underscores the resilience of the most diverse economy in the world. It is often taken for granted, but during this expansion the economy has been dealt several set-backs that have been overcome: the U.S. fiscal cliff, fears of major bank failures, the Eurozone\u2019s long sovereign debt crisis, fears that the Eurozone would cut Greece loose, China\u2019s economic \u2018crisis,\u2019 a commodity price collapse and, most recently, fears of a British exit from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Despite some dark clouds hovering over the market for some time now, this has been the third longest market upswing in U.S. history and has replenished around $14 trillion back into the equities markets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bull Market by Length (current bull market is the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> longest in history)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2016-04-14-image_2.png\" src=\"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2016-04-14-image_2.png\" alt='2016-04-14-image_2.png' width=\"574\" height=\"214\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bull Market by Percentage Gain (Red) and Length (Blue in # of Months)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2016-04-14-image_3.png\" src=\"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2016-04-14-image_3.png\" alt='2016-04-14-image_3.png' width=\"576\" height=\"336\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite volatility in the market of late, the S&amp;P 500&#8217;s 10 sectors have increased over the past 84 months. The NASDAQ stocks in IT companies, consumer, financial and industrial sectors grew by 284%, 400%, 250% and 250%, respectively. Medical and pharmaceutical companies have seen robust growth as well with values nearly tripling in aggregate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom Line for Investors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Given an eight year bull market, old by historic standards, it\u2019s easy to understand why investors might be mentally preparing for this bull\u2019s demise. But, bull markets don\u2019t die of old age. They die when fundamentals collapse and growth ceases, two conditions we\u2019re not seeing now. So, stay steady and keep an eye on the fundamentals as you consider your next investment moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many are crying out to the markets, \u201cbring out your dead\u201d, this bull is letting us know \u201cI\u2019m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-private-client-group","category-steady-investor-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11402,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/11402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacksim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}