Is Stock Market Sentiment Too Complacent?
Here’s your “lost decade” update: The S&P 500 (ChicagoOptions:^GSPC) has risen nine out of the past 10 years and in 2013 just posted its best yearly performance in a decade. Have stock market investors become spoiled and overconfident? Measuring the stock market’s mood or “sentiment” through news headlines, surveys, and data give us clues about …