Is the Market Bubble About to Burst?

The last two years have been extraordinary. The stock market has surged higher as corporate profits continued to climb and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive QE3 bond-buying program, which was announced in September 2012. Charted side-by-side, the relationship between higher stock prices and cumulative Fed bond purchases mirror each other closely as the S&P 500 has gone on to gain more than 40 percent.