And our economy is definitely improving what is holding us back . Considering that the averages spent most of the day in the red before rebounding in the afternoon. Dow climbing 18 points, s p. 19 , nasdaq gaining. 34 . I think thats the question well have to answer right now. So tonight, lets talk about whats missing in this markets feeble attempts to mount a rally since peaking a month ago. First, we just dont have the rest of the world going our way. We got to admit this. For much of last year, we could count on at least one part of the universe besides us doing well in any given moment. Think about it, we had europe coming out of recession and the Interest Rates falling seemingly by the day. We had china in a bad news is good news frame of mind where each negative piece of data implied that we were one step away from the gigantic stimulus Plan Everyone was waiting for. We had russia getting its footing back and our companies doing business over there, were seeing some terrific year