From this weekend's Marketwatch article "U.S. stocks expected to rise next week": SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - The rally in U.S. stocks that propelled the S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average to new highs in the last few days will extend into the coming week as corporate merger activity and expectations of less inflation keep pushing the market higher, strategists said. ... "You have a [U.S.] market that really doesn't want to go down," said Doug Sandler, chief equity strategist at Wachovia Securities. "You can throw a lot of bad news at this market...and in the end, it finds a way to wiggle its way to the upside."
harvard prof on c span this morning said money being made on production spikes in not so safe foriegn countries is being parked here as safe haven for investment,so maybe we keep going up