bear market

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Recent Examples of bear market The first shock of the breadth and depth of the tariff announcement sank equities over a number of days into territory approaching a bear market. Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025 This area will definitely result in the collapse of some treasuries in the future, whereby onerous terms will force companies to sell and/or interest rates will become too costly to sustain during a bear market. Alexander S. Blume, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025 The Russell 2000 was the first to enter bear market territory after President Donald Trump 's sweeping tariff policy was announced in April. Michelle Fox, CNBC, 5 June 2025 Wall Street had largely moved beyond the trade war after a number of rollbacks, pauses and deals had taken much of the sting out of the tariffs that at one point early last month sent the S&P 500 into bear market territory before rallying. David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for bear market
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bull market
Noun
  • But for the last 15 years, the U.S. has stopped and reversed that trend thanks to a prolonged bull market with only a couple brief bumps in the road.
    Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Despite our current bull market in stocks, over the last 20 years gold has actually outperformed the S&P 500.
    Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025

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