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bear market

[bair mahr-kit] / ˈbɛər ˈmɑr kɪt /


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Read: You might be shocked by how many stocks are in a bear market right now.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 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

The S&P 500 reached its dot.com peak on March 24, 2000, then tumbled 49% to its bear market low in late 2002.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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

He was a bull in a bear market; and the more he lost the more he thought the inevitable "rally" in prices was due.

From The Tipster 1901, From "Wall Street Stories" by Edwin Lefevre




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