Meaning of bear market | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stock market where a majority of investors are selling ("bears"), causing overall stock prices to drop. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 20% or more on some specific stock market index.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, market.

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Examples

“Investors face⟳ a quandary. Cash offers a return⟳ of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have⟳ risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have⟳ suffered two big bear⟳ markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return⟳.”

“Now bids are submitted by button companies for the Teddy Bear⟳ contract, and Germany plush factories manufacture⟳ plush especially for the bear⟳ market at Giengen Brenz.”

“It is significant that in the last⟳ 5-10 years the preferred method of safely transporting cubs purchased at bear⟳ markets and near “Dangs” or forests has been through friendly truck drivers, […]”

“During the summer of 1906 the bear⟳ market surged when toy bears, sold as zoo souvenirs, attracted crowds of little boys and their parents along boardwalks at the seaside resorts of the Jersey Shore.”

“Bear⟳ images are now sold to an ever-increasing circle of admirers (as evidenced by Catalina producing videos aimed at the bear⟳ market).”

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