[rupert1234]

Sorry to single you out, but the stock market usually trades in anticipation of recessions. It's not a proxy for the current GDP, it's an expectations market. The stock market could start a slow rise tomorrow and go until the end of the year and the entire year could be in a recession.

[engineeringwoke]

As a European it seems like the US markets are a step behind and seemed to trade pretty optimistically last week and especially the week before even though the situation was bad in Italy, for example.

[rupert1234]

? They were way off last week. If that is your definition of optimistic, I don't want to see pessimistic.