How to Use bear market in a Sentence
bear market
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This suggests that both groups could easily fall by more or less the same amount in the next bear market.
— Mark Hulbert, WSJ, 8 July 2018 -
The nation’s stocks have entered a bear market in recent weeks amid fears of the looming trade war.
— Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 5 July 2018 -
The last bear market for the index ended in March 2009.
— Marley Jay, The Seattle Times, 12 Dec. 2018 -
Futures prices for the red metal have tumbled 17% from a four-year high in June, bringing it close to a bear market.
— David Hodari, WSJ, 11 July 2018 -
Oil prices traded in a bear market earlier in the session, defined as a 20% pullback from recent highs.
— Stephanie Yang, WSJ, 4 June 2019 -
Investors have been spooked by regulators’ clash with ICOs and the overall bear market in...
— Paul Vigna, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2019 -
The current crypto bear market is a signal: the level of adoption needed to ignite the next bull market remains elusive.
— Fatemeh Fannizadeh, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 -
The Chinese stock market as of this week is down more than 20 percent from its January peak, making it a bear market.
— Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 28 June 2018 -
But if history is any indication, trepidation that the current rally could turn into a full blown bear market might be unwarranted.
— Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024 -
Bear-O-Meter Global indexes; a bear market is often defined as a 20% decline from a peak, based on the market close.
— Kosaku Narioka, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2018 -
And hedge funds that wager on things like bonds, currencies and the likelihood of corporate mergers boast that their performances are unconnected to the stock markets and can rise in bull and bear markets alike.
— James B. Stewart, New York Times, 12 July 2018 -
That would not only qualify as a correction, but put the DOW within 5% of bear market territory.
— Bob Sellers, Fortune, 7 June 2019 -
Indeed, Whirlpool’s stock is off by more than a third since the start of the bear market.
— Brett Owens, Forbes, 6 May 2023 -
That means the index is in what Wall Street calls a bear market.
— Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 8 Mar. 2022 -
But experts are hopeful that the end of the bear market is in sight.
— Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 2 Oct. 2022 -
Crude prices had been in a bear market just weeks ago, what Wall Street calls a drop of 20% or more.
— Washington Post, 21 June 2019 -
In a bear market, in other words, the price is right for anonymity.
— Jessica Klein, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023 -
None of this makes the losses from the soon-to-be bear market of 2022 any easier to abide.
— Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022 -
That means a fall of at least 10% from a recent high and one that marks the halfway point to a bear market.
— Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2024 -
Stocks’ big rally from the bear market is more like a dead cat bounce, UBS says.
— Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2022 -
But stocks bounced a bit from there and have managed to avoid a bear market, at least so far.
— Arkansas Online, 31 May 2022 -
The worst part of a bear market, besides the fears of penury, is the uncertainty.
— Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022 -
Such a decline means the index is now in what Wall Street calls a bear market.
— Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2022 -
And, this marks the second bear market for Tesla shares this year.
— Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2020 -
Has this really been the worst bond bear market of all time?
— Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023 -
The benchmark index has risen 7.1% since coming to the edge of a bear market two weeks ago.
— Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022 -
Of course, there’s a lot to worry about in this current bear market.
— Simon Moore, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022 -
That is a violent bear market and the stock needs a lot of time and price to repair the damage.
— Adam Sarhan, Forbes, 19 July 2022 -
Just over 9 months and the average bear market is done.
— Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022 -
Wall Street defines a bear market as a drop of 20% or more from a recent high.
— David Marino-Nachison, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
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