bear market
Example Sentences
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Back then, stocks were mired in a painful bear market as the Federal Reserve kicked off an aggressive series of interest-rate hikes that many feared would drive the U.S. economy into a recession.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
And those two are the only funds in the table whose track records include both the bear market of 2000-02 and 2008-09.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
U.S. investors don’t talk much about the 2011 bear market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The big risk for investors in autocallables, though, is a major drawdown in the reference assets that fails to recover back above the maturity barrier in a severe and prolonged bear market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
It refers to a person who believes that the market value of stocks will decline, and a bear market is a declining market.
From Successful Stock Speculation by John James Butler
