bear market

noun

: a market in which securities or commodities are persistently declining in value compare bull market

Examples of bear market in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web After suffering through a brutal bear market in 2022, investors who stuck to their guns and held onto stocks saw their payoff last year. —

Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024 In 2011 2011 was another year with a bear market decline (-19.4%). —

Wes Moss, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 The prior bear market reached its bottom the following day. —

Krystal Hur, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024 The prolonged bear market in Japanese equities post-1990, as covered in a 2000 report published by the International Monetary Fund, provides a stark example of anchoring bias in action. —

Dan Irvine, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 The high-profile exchange collapses in 2022 of firms like FTX, Celsius, BlockFi, Genesis, came during a bear market that was set off by irresponsible lending and other improprieties that seem to have dissipated. —

Javier Paz, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024 Munger racked up strong returns in the fund, but, like most investors, he was hit hard in the deep bear market of 1973-74, amid the first Arab oil embargo. —

Tom Petruno, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023 The stock market has shown strong performance since January 2019 (excepting the bear market of 2022), with the S&P 500 more than doubling during that time. —

Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2024 The bear market in tech stocks is likely to return in 2024, with the Nasdaq index set to hit a new multiyear low. —

Edward Chancellor, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024

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