As I was watching the market reactions yesterday, there seemed to be a lot of optimism floating around as equities rose to their highest levels since 2007, and the dollar, according to the dollar index, finished the day above 80. Yesterday started out with a bang on US trading as retail sales came in, as [...] Investors React Positively as Retail Sales Increase originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning . The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.