they have the best way to measure new employment because they get the data right from the firms that use their services.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/us-market-futures-up-on-positive-unemployment-report-strong-hiring-figures-buoyed-by-europe/2012/09/06/138a2766-f821-11e1-a93b-7185e3f88849_story.html

NEW YORK — The last time the stock market was this high, the Great Recession had just started, and stocks were pointed toward a headlong descent.

But on Thursday, the Dow Jones industrial average hit its highest mark since December 2007, and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index soared to its highest level since January 2008 in a rally that seemed destined to mark a milestone: American stocks have come almost all the way back.

take that Republicans

there was an Obama effect.

I think it became clearer to a lot of people that Obama is likely to win?

Obama makes a helluva lot more sense & I think the stock market agrees.

Austerity is wrong, Greece knows that, the EU better catch on real quick.

But hey - the stock market was 6500 when President Obama took office

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/business/global/european-central-bank-leaves-interest-rates-unchanged-at-0-75-percent.html?_r=1&hp

the Spanish have been on the verge of riots ....Protestors went into stores and confiscated food for the poor

then the ECB decides to by the bonds

I think they realize Austere measures don't work Greece is still in terrible shape