How to Use bear market in a Sentence

bear market

noun
  • 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
  • After a wild year that included a bear market and new record highs, stocks are taking a holiday break.
    David Brinkerhoff, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The market's view of silver linings ahead follows a year that including both a bull market and a bear market.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Fortunately for equity investors, the bear market turned out to be short-lived.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 24 Nov. 2020
  • In the coronavirus bear market last March, Tesla shares fell to about $72.
    John Dorfman, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • All investors sweated through a record-fast dive into a bear market, yet enjoyed an unbelievably strong rally to end the year.
    Ben Carlson, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The stock, which fell more than 60% during the bear market, turned positive for the year in December.
    Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Every bear market and every recession are different, but the one common theme is that all of them are followed by a recovery.
    Ben Marks and Brett Angel, Star Tribune, 19 Dec. 2020
  • After plunging into a bear market—defined as a drop of at least 20%—a new bull market emerged, one that raced to new highs faster than ever before.
    Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2021
  • As the extent of the coronavirus became clear in March, investors sent stocks tumbling 34 percent, a bear market.
    Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Notice that the valuations in 1966, the beginning of a long-term bear market, were also high.
    John Mauldin, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The looming bear market, when investor confidence evaporates and is replaced with fear, will be ARK’s biggest test yet.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The drop took Nikkei’s losses since early July to 25%, pushing it into bear market territory.
    Laura He, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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