Investors in U.S. equities seem to have embraced a new market paradigm in which upside spikes come more swiftly than the downside selloffs.

Bulls are back in control. The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrials, and NASDAQ 100 each have surged well above their respective round-number millennium resistance levels -- 2,000, 17,000, and 4,000.

Despite concerns about global economic growth and a persistent lack of inflation, especially given all the global quantitative easing, fundamentals for U.S. stocks still look good.

Over just ten years, 3.13% compounds to over 36%. I think most investors would like to know about such a large additional cost before they put their money into an ETF.

Although the stock market displayed weakness last week as I suggested it would, bulls aren’t going down easily.

The Utilities sector ranks tenth out of the ten sectors as detailed in my Sector Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets my Very Dangerous rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 9 ETFs and 33 mutual funds in the Utilities sector as of July 17,2014.