How to Use bear market in a Sentence

bear market

noun
  • That’s not to say that a recession is around the corner, or that a bear market looms.
    Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Once stocks drop 20% from their highs, trading is considered to be in a bear market.
    Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • And the good news for those investors is that there will always be a bear market somewhere, even when the broad market is killing it.
    Ben Carlson, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2019
  • The recovery is pulling the stock market a bit further from the edge of a bear market, signified by a drop of 20% from a record.
    Alex Veiga, The Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The stock market plunged into a bear market this week amid concerns about the coronavirus’s effect on the global economy.
    Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 11 Mar. 2020
  • But Russia is pushing back -- even though fears about the coronavirus have sent oil prices crashing into yet another bear market.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Amid the coronavirus worries, the transportation index is close to being in a bear market -- which happens when a stock or index is 20% off a recent peak.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Instability, coupled with a weakening economy and high inflation, led to a bear market and a minor recession.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 9 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Only three times out of those 11 did the market then fall 20% or more, which is the measure of a bear market.
    Ryan Derousseau, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The most common action, Morningstar said, was to sell stocks in the first quarter of 2020, when the bear market hit.
    Carla Fried, Star Tribune, 1 May 2021
  • The top two meme coins are in a bear market this year anyway, down more than 20%, though that’s not much worse than the Nasdaq.
    Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Indeed, the bear market was still in play through the first part of that phase, and the new bull market had already begun toward the end of that period.
    Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The most timely signal was in late 2000, which roughly coincided with the start of a bear market cycle.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2024

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