What does WoW stand for?

The wall of worry that the market is trying to climb has gotten higher" into September, said Michael James, senior trader at Wedbush Morgan in Los Angeles.

Climbing the wall of worry likely will start again as soon as earnings season is over," Miscioscia wrote.

The market is clearly climbing a wall of worry and in the UK context the fact that the mining sector and the oil sector are such heavyweight components of the FTSE 100, when they have a good start, they have a disproportionate effect on the index," said Jeremy Batstone-Carr, head of private client research at Charles Stanley.

Investors have been climbing a wall of worry because the nation's inventories of gasoline have declined in recent weeks.

While there still appears to be risks to investor sentiment from seasonal factors, valuation questions and trade war fears, among other issues, yesterday’s limited decline suggests that markets continue to climb a wall of worry, which is generally seen as a sign of a bull market, rather than the sense of complacency that tends to emerge near significant tops.

Those who believe stocks climb a wall of worry are facing a pretty short wall.

id=84 Here are the highlights from the Featured Expert column: Up the Wall of Worry Enough with the bearish talk of the last two months and how the markets would have to plunge between 50% and 75% from current levels in order to make a full retracement of the bubble.

The other tried-and-true Wall Street bromide that applies here is, “A bull market always climbs a Wall of Worry.