How to Use bear market in a Sentence

bear market

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  • 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
  • In a bear market, in other words, the price is right for anonymity.
    — Jessica Klein, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wall Street defines a bear market as a drop of 20% or more from a recent high.
    — David Marino-Nachison, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • 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 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 index is down more than 20% for the year, having entered a bear market two weeks ago.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • So below are some strategies that may help you in a bear market.
    — Simon Moore, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Her flagship fund has lost half its value in the middle of a bear market.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 27 May 2022
  • Many investors look for divergences in the S&P 500 and the A/D line to help determine the strength of a bull or bear market.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The Dow entered a bear market:Here's what that means for investing in stocks.
    — David McHugh, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
  • That's about triple where prices were during the depths of the crypto bear market in the early pandemic days of 2020.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Of the three indexes, the Dow is the only one not in a bear market, defined as a drop of 20% or more from a recent high.
    — Hannah Miao, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
  • This means a bear market is less likely to begin during the last few weeks of the year than at other times.
    — Mark Hulbert, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Pessimism took hold in 2022 as stocks plunged into a bear market.
    — Michael Joseph, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • That means that a bull market would need a gain of at least 25 percent to wipe out bear market losses.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • At the beginning of the shortest bear market, in contrast, the CAPE ratio was more than twice as high, at 38.3.
    — Mark Hulbert, WSJ, 5 July 2021
  • This key threshold helps traders determine whether bitcoin is in a bull or bear market.
    — Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 11 July 2024
  • After suffering through a brutal bear market in 2022, investors who stuck to their guns and held onto stocks saw their payoff last year.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024

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