When the bull won't be taken by the horns

1. What do you think was a significant thing that happened this week?

IF you'd been watching the stock markets earlier this week - or for the last eight years, for that matter - you'd have developed a crick in your neck from watching share prices climb ever higher into the atmosphere.

Higher and higher they've risen, well into uncharted territory, where the air is thin and hyperventilation is consequently a possibility.