because there just aren't any signs of a bull slowdown at least in the near future you have to go back to march two thousand and nine to see this bull market take its first steps and thanks to unprecedented help from the u.s. federal reserve the u.s. and the global economy were emerging from the scariest financial crisis since the great depression of the nineteen thirty's now this bull market seemed at times more like a cat with nine lives there was the downgrading of u.s. credit in two thousand and eleven there was the euro crisis right here in europe there was china's economic slowdown that spooked the world and then that dramatic crash in oil prices remember when crude was selling for one hundred dollars a barrel all of those gave investors reason to panic but they didn't panic enough to kill the bull market in fact corporate america has flourished consider those market darlings that we talk about all the time there's right there there's apple there's amazon net flix their share prices grew and grew and grew and despite trade