Article: Raise your hands: bull or bear? If you have both hands up, you're right with the analyst crowd as they debate whether stocks are in a new bull market or just a bear market rally. Bottom line: be a trader, enjoying the ride but watching for vicious twists and turns.(Markets)

Economic forecasting has long been regarded as a two-handed science--"On one hand ... On the other hand ..." Analysts certainly had both hands busy in the middle of 2003 trying to project the outlook for major stock indexes this year.

Individually, analysts fall into one of two main camps:

* The spring advance was just a bear market rally in a bigger, ongoing bear market that will resume at any time.

* The spring rally heralded another bull market. Collectively, the outlook is about as two-handed and cloudy as it can get as both sides can produce solid evidence to support their projections. Much of the debate may be a matter of semantics. Just ...

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