Happy Birthday, Bull

Events and policies have conspired to propel the stock market to new heights. Will it keep rising? And, a look at the "fluky" labor report.

Sweet, well behaved one day, an unruly hellion the next? It's about what you'd expect from a 5-year-old.

And so it has been recently with the stock market, which marks the fifth anniversary on March 9 of its bear-market lows, when the Standard & Poor's 500 index touched 666, the mark of the Devil from the Book of Revelation, following a near-biblical set of plagues loosed on the financial system and the world economy in 2007-08....