'To me, I do not understand it how the markets keep going up"

Brian

Well, there is very simple reason for it. Massive injection of free money (several trillions of dollars) to rescue financial system created the unprecedented liquidity for financial institutions. Most of these 'new" money rushed to the stock market and created another bubble , this time sponsor by the governments around the world.

This is what you can do:

1.Rightfully complain about irrationality of this situation and stay in cash knowing that sooner or later created bubble obviously will burst.

2. Participate in this unprecedented opportunity and hope that you will be the lucky one who will cash in the profit in time before this new bubble will burst.

Since most of us here ( CLL shareholders) are pure gamblers, the option #2 make more sense. Is there any other option?

denby45, nice to here from you again. Good points about the dollar and oil relation, another mystery hedge funds play on the futures markets. How is the Dubai properties bubble going?