Because when the macroeconomic backdrop is as bad as it's ever been... there's only one thing for it - panic-buy equities... As one witty Twitterer noted overnight... https://twitter.com/credittrader!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); the more you think and assess risk, the more you wrong. — DMW (@dmwlsw) https://twitter.com/dmwlsw/status/588170243836608512!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); Indeed! Chart: Bloomberg