bull market

noun

Definition of bull market

: a market in which securities or commodities are persistently rising in value — compare bear market

Examples of bull market in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Meanwhile, a yearlong bull market—triggered by the CARES Act’s passage at the market trough and supported since then by a series of government rescues—has added roughly $4.8 trillion of wealth to the richest 1% of American households. — Daniel Markovits, Time, "America's 1% Got Way Richer During the Pandemic. We Need a Onetime Wealth Tax to Help Rebuild the Country," 30 Apr. 2021 Earnings, valuation and rampant speculation have all played a role in the extraordinary bull market that began a year ago this week. — James Mackintosh, WSJ, "This Bull Market Has a Troubling Reliance on Speculation," 25 Mar. 2021 Low interest rates played a role in inflating the US housing bubble before the 2008 financial crisis, as well as in the apparently relentless bull market in US stocks. — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, "New Zealand’s central bank is being asked to tackle a housing crisis," 15 Mar. 2021 Back then, the U.S. experienced an incredibly strong bull market, heavily fueled by the rapid growth of technology stocks. — Joel Litman, Forbes, "Wall Street Wrong Again: Goldman’s “Non-Profitable” Tech Index Is Not Vindicated By Volatility," 4 Mar. 2021 DeFi or Decentralized Finance has been one of the biggest catalysts of the recent crypto bull market. — Tatiana Koffman, Forbes, "Meet Clover, The Next Generation Of DeFi On PolkaDot And Kusama," 20 Apr. 2021 Welcome to the CrazyTown exit of the 2021 bull market. — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, "Coinbase and crypto slump, but a resurgent economy pushes blue-chip stocks higher," 16 Apr. 2021 In a bull market, the club’s creditors had been prepared to tolerate those figures. — New York Times, "A French Soccer Team Clings to First Place as the Bottom Falls Out," 2 Apr. 2021 The debate around whether or not bitcoin is a store of value is one that continues to rage hotly, but the reality is that this has been a driving force in the current bull market. — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes, "Coinbase, Bitcoin, And Some Longer Term Implications Of Coinbase Going Public," 7 Apr. 2021

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