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bear market
noun
: a market in which securities or commodities are persistently declining in value compare bull market
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But the stock cast a pall on the realities of the situation, again a bear market phenomenon.
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Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2025
This is mostly because the three-year lookback lands at the exact peak of the market preceding the 2022 bear market, a particularly unflattering start point.
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Michael Santoli, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2025
First, in 2001, 2008 and 2019, these peaks were hit after a bear market had already begun.
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Michael Foster, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Emerging strongly from its bear market lows, Bitcoin has reasserted itself as one of the best-performing assets of the year.
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Leeor Shimron, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
bear entry 1 (one that sells in expectation of a price decline)
First Known Use
1858, in the meaning defined above
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“Bear market.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bear%20market. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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