Hope springs eternal, Alexander Pope wrote. And hope indeed turned into bold, delightful reality this past week, treating the nation's more than 80 million beleaguered stock investors to a wing-ding of a five-day winning streak during which the Dow Jones Industrials racked up a rousing 597-point gain. It was the biggest weekly advance of the year.
No question about it. This giant sprint is largely predicated on a rapidly swelling view that the beaten-up economy is out of the woods.
Such a...
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