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MARKET SNAPSHOT: Bears Cite Performance Chasing As Stocks Rise

The bears are warning: A herd mentality on Wall Street is driving stocks to unsustainable levels.As an extended rally prompts some strategists to raise their price targets for the year, the pessimistic ones are arguing that those prices are being supported more by performance-chasing investors than by any real improvement in fundamentals."My experience is when managers are overly focused on performance on a near-term basis, and worried they're missing out, it means they're buying stocks for the wrong reasons," said Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets.He's sticking to his 1,575 target for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index this year, even though the benchmark is trading nearly 5% above that target, closing Friday at 1,649.60.Stocks are in uncharted territory when it comes to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) and the S&P 500 (SPX), and this past week they faced the first real resistance since they started setting new highs in late March.Four weeks of ...

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