How to Use bear market in a Sentence
bear market
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More broadly, there are still hopes that stocks won't fall back into a bear market.
— Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 26 June 2020 -
How much of the bear market losses have been recovered?
— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 9 June 2020 -
As coronavirus fears gripped the world, huge daily declines piled up, leading to a bear market and an end to what some have called a magical decade.
— Suzanne McGee, WSJ, 4 May 2020 -
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 -
During the Great Depression, in the nineteen-thirties, the bear market lasted even longer.
— John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 May 2020 -
The depths of a bear market is not a great time to have this investment epiphany but a huge run-up in stocks is never a bad time to reassess your diversification profile.
— Ben Carlson, Fortune, 28 June 2020 -
The wild moves come as stock gauges globally slide into bear markets and credit cracks on fears the spreading virus will cause a significant economic downturn.
— Eric Lam, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020 -
In a comeback poised to muscle its way into financial history, U.S. stocks are preparing to leave the bear market behind.
— Hamza Shaban, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020 -
Most people define a bear market as a drop of at least 20% in the stock market from the latest high (while a 20% recovery from its low puts an index back in a bull market).
— Simon Constable, WSJ, 6 July 2020 -
But this was essentially a rebound from a 20% selloff in the first quarter, when U.S. stocks entered their fastest bear market in history.
— Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 1 July 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 -
But even bear markets, or when stocks decline at least 20% from their peak, are normal and aren't a reason to panic, experts say.
— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2024
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