bear market

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Recent Examples of bear market Those gains helped the S & P 500 recover from near bear market territory to trade back at record levels. Fred Imbert, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025 During the selloff, the S&P 500 flirted with bear market territory, diving nearly 20% from its prior high. Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2025 One of the greatest real-life examples of this came on April 7 as news stories swept the country that there would be a 90-day retreat from tariffs after the markets opened entering bear market territory. Hillary Stalker, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 On April 8, when stocks were on the verge of plunging into a bear market, few Wall Street experts were predicting that the market would come close to a record high just 80 days later. David Goldman, CNN Money, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for bear market
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bull market
Noun
  • Wall Street largely took profits in Big Tech giants that have been leading the bull market higher this year.
    Julie Coleman, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
  • After all, during the last recent bull market of 2021 there was multiple partnerships and agreements inked by between crypto native firms are TradFi institutions.
    Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025

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