Stocks are riding optimism, not earnings, to records By: MarketWatch May 04, 2014 at 08:30 AM EDT As stocks trade near record highs near a lackluster earnings season, some strategists wonder if optimism for the rest of the year is sustaining valuations. Read More >> Related Stocks: Activision Blizzard Allstate Corp American International Group CBS Corp Cablevision Systems Computer Sciences DIRECTV Discovery Communications Electronic Arts First Solar Fox Corp Cl B Groupon Cl A Keurig Green Mountain Molson Coors Brewing Mondelez International Monster Beverage NVIDIA Corp News Corp Cl B News Corporation Pfizer Principal Financial Group Scripps Networks Interactive Standard & Poors 500 Symantec Corp Sysco Corp Teradata Corp Tesla, Inc. The Priceline Group TripAdvisor Twenty-First Century Fox Tyson Foods Unum Group Walt Disney Whole Foods Market