Stock Market Today: The Bear Is Dead; Long Live the Bull!
Aug 18, 2020
2 minutes
It wasn't pretty, and it wasn't by much, but the S&P 500 officially exited bear territory on Tuesday and greeted a new bull market.
Stocks were helped out by U.S. housing starts, which jumped 22.6% month-over-month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of just under 1.5 million.
Blerina Uruçi and Pooja Sriram of
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