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Is Stock Market 'Fear Gauge' Reflecting Calm Or Complacency …

The six-year bull market lives on after the S&P 500 (SPX) finished at record highs—and in a week for mediocre economic and earnings numbers.The broad-market index is now up 1.8 percent in May and 3 percent year to date. With its gain, risk perceptions seem to be easing along with market volatility.But don’t look now. Wall Street’s bullish bias faces […]

Stock market looks to earnings as possible lifeline – CNBC.com

3 gifts for market bull
Discussing market volatility and the earnings picture for 2015, with Steve Auth, Federated Investors, and James Liu, JPMorgan Funds
With the U.S. stock market in an extended funk, earnings offer at least a temporary escape route.”The earnings season represents the first potential stop in this downward trend,” said Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Boston Private Wealth.Recent […]