ay that the bonfire shows no signs of going out and in fact seems to be burning brighter.Unless you are a totally non-financial type then you know that the stock market has been breaking records just about every other day. In fact since March 2006 the stock market has gone up by 2095 points. In 2006 alone the stock market's return on investment was in excess of 16%. If you think of the current stock market performance as a bonfire you could say that the bonfire shows no signs of going out and in fact seems to be burning brighter.<breaking records just about every other day. In fact since March 2006 the stock market has gone up by 2095 points. In 2006 alone the stock market's return on investment was in excess of 16%. If you think of the current stock market performance as a bonfire you could say that the bonfire shows no signs of going out and in fact seems to be burning brighter.s gone up by 2095 points. In 2006 alone the stock market's return on investment was in excess of 16%. If you think of the current stock market performance as a bonfire you could say that the bonfire shows no signs of going out and in fact seems to be burning brighter.ess of 16%. If you think of the current stock market performance as a bonfire you could say that the bonfire shows no signs of going out and in fact seems to be burning brighter.ay that the bonfire shows no signs of going out and in fact seems to be burning brighter.

So why is the market on the rise and what's behind this record-breaking acceleration? Well it boils down to three principal reasons or accelerants.

The first accelerant is earnings or corporate earnings to be specific. Corporate America is making more money then ever before. Earnings in just about every corporate sector have reached unpreceden