Is Everyone Nero These Days?

Legend has it the Roman Emperor Nero played his fiddle while Rome burned down around him. These days, domestic investors keep throwing money into the financial markets despite troubling headlines both here and abroad.

• But why is the American investing public apparently ignoring the world around it?
• Is it a change in risk tolerance?
• Easier access to retail investment products?
• Recent past performance?
• Does the money simply have to go somewhere?
• Or are we fiddling while the world burns down around us?

On this week’s Trading Perspectives, Sam Clement and John Norris discuss the recent curious rally in the US stock market and the potential causes for it.