bear market

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Recent Examples of bear market The intraday low at the bottom of the Great Financial Crisis bear market was, famously, 666. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025 Crypto and crypto-adjacent products and services have experienced significant growth, adoption, and acceptance since the last bear market kicked off by the collapse of FTX, but still are – for all intents and purposes – a fringe component of the financial world. Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025 The stock market selloff in April marked the end of a bear market, according to Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson, who said a new bull market has started. Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 9 Aug. 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
  • Tech shares that have led the bull market, including Palantir and Oracle, declined as part of a risk-off move.
    Sean Conlon,Pia Singh, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Kelly is sanguine about what may happen, reasoning that the bull market has run longer than anyone could ever expect, so prognosticating is difficult at this point, while advising diversification as a sound strategy.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2025

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