“Rising earnings. Economic growth. Bargains. A lot of the stuff investors were thought to cherish has been in short supply in the rally that has swept markets since March.” Bloomberg: The Things That Used to Matter to Stock Investors Don’t Anymore.

+ “In the time that U.S. deaths have increased from 100 to more than 100,000, the S&P 500 has gone up 20 percent.” Three Reasons Stocks Are Rising. Let’s hope we don’t have to add a forth reason: Investors have gone cray cray…

+ And Buzzfeed on the great divide. There’s A Boom In Homebuying As Unemployment Soars. “Forty-two million people have filed for unemployment. But last week applications for mortgages on new homes were up 17.5% compared to a year ago.”