Investors bid up shares in companies that turned in better earnings or outlooks than Wall Street was expecting, including<br />footwear company Skechers, video game publisher Activision Blizzard and real estate investment company CBRE Group.<br />Randy Frederick said that We had a drought for a very, very long time last year where we went almost a year<br />and a half without hitting a new high, which was the longest time ever,<br />Beyond earnings, investors are also eying Washington D. C. for signs the Trump administration will deliver on the promised business-friendly policy proposals<br />that helped drive a market rally last fall, including slashing government regulations and taxes.<br />Wall Street capped a week of milestones Friday with a rally that pushed the major stock indexes to all-time highs for the second day in a row.<br />About 40 percent of those turned in earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street’s forecasts, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.<br />Trading got off to a good start early Friday, as investors sized up the latest batch of company earnings.<br />Frederick said that The market has been pretty generous ever since the election in moving in anticipation of what might come,
