How to Use bear market in a Sentence
bear market
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And that puts it a far ways off from a bear market (a drop of 20% or more).
— Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2018 -
Indeed, Whirlpool’s stock is off by more than a third since the start of the bear market.
— Brett Owens, Forbes, 6 May 2023 -
That means the index is in what Wall Street calls a bear market.
— Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 8 Mar. 2022 -
But experts are hopeful that the end of the bear market is in sight.
— Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 2 Oct. 2022 -
The last bear market for the index ended in March 2009.
— Marley Jay, The Seattle Times, 12 Dec. 2018 -
Crude prices had been in a bear market just weeks ago, what Wall Street calls a drop of 20% or more.
— Washington Post, 21 June 2019 -
In a bear market, in other words, the price is right for anonymity.
— Jessica Klein, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023 -
The same goes in reverse when a bear market gives way to a new bull market.
— Mark Hulbert, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2018 -
None of this makes the losses from the soon-to-be bear market of 2022 any easier to abide.
— Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022 -
That means a fall of at least 10% from a recent high and one that marks the halfway point to a bear market.
— Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2024 -
Stocks’ big rally from the bear market is more like a dead cat bounce, UBS says.
— Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2022 -
But stocks bounced a bit from there and have managed to avoid a bear market, at least so far.
— Arkansas Online, 31 May 2022 -
The worst part of a bear market, besides the fears of penury, is the uncertainty.
— Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022 -
Such a decline means the index is now in what Wall Street calls a bear market.
— Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2022 -
The cries for a correction or bear market seem to be getting stronger by the day.
— Sean Williams, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2017 -
And, this marks the second bear market for Tesla shares this year.
— Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2020 -
Has this really been the worst bond bear market of all time?
— Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023 -
The benchmark index has risen 7.1% since coming to the edge of a bear market two weeks ago.
— Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022 -
Of course, there’s a lot to worry about in this current bear market.
— Simon Moore, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022 -
That is a violent bear market and the stock needs a lot of time and price to repair the damage.
— Adam Sarhan, Forbes, 19 July 2022 -
Just over 9 months and the average bear market is done.
— Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022 -
Ten-year treasuries at four-year highs — does this herald the start of a bond bear market?
— Marc Jones, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2018 -
Wall Street defines a bear market as a drop of 20% or more from a recent high.
— David Marino-Nachison, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022 -
That’s not to say that a recession is around the corner, or that a bear market looms.
— Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2019 -
That time is at the bottom of a bear market — just as a new bull market is about to begin.
— Mark Hulbert, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018 -
Only three times out of those 11 did the market then fall 20% or more, which is the measure of a bear market.
— Ryan Derousseau, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 -
The most common action, Morningstar said, was to sell stocks in the first quarter of 2020, when the bear market hit.
— Carla Fried, Star Tribune, 1 May 2021 -
The top two meme coins are in a bear market this year anyway, down more than 20%, though that’s not much worse than the Nasdaq.
— Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022 -
The most timely signal was in late 2000, which roughly coincided with the start of a bear market cycle.
— Katie Stockton, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2024 -
The current crypto bear market is a signal: the level of adoption needed to ignite the next bull market remains elusive.
— Fatemeh Fannizadeh, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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