Personally I think it's all staged propaganda. The stock market didn't hit an all time high because they didn't want it to, keeping inflation in check would be my guess. Just like I think sometime shortly after Christmas Kim Jung Un will say something crazy like he did last year to make gas prices spike a bit, bring them back up to just slightly over or around the three dollar mark. The economy of all countries is so fragile it's a careful manipulation game to keep it stable.