Earnings driving U.S. equity market to new highs – it’s NOT a bubble (yet)!: Larry Berman

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Many are asking if we are in a market bubble. There are clearly some characteristics of this in trading behaviour, the amount of leverage in the market, the use of derivatives (options) to create ...

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