The Dow’s 142-point gain on Monday was more or less obligatory, since bulls are wont to begin each new week with a show of strength. I hesitate to call it bravado, since there’s nothing to suggest any lack of confidence beneath the surface. The 25,215 close left the blue chip average about a thousand points beneath my current rally target at 27,251. As always, we should be prepared for seemingly ambitious targets to be achieved more quickly than in days of yore, when stocks occasionally sold off for more than a day or two. You’d have to be and old-timer to remember those days, since the new normal is just up, up and away — and no looking back.