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Recent Examples of bear market
Fozzie Bear explained bear markets and Miss Piggy took umbrage at Ted Koppel’s commodities question about pork bellies.
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Bill Prady, Variety, 3 May 2025
The Nasdaq, which entered a bear market in early April, managed to eke out a gain of 0.85% across the month.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
The benchmark is about 16 percent below its closing high in mid-February, as rounds of selling have pulled the index closer to a bear market, a Wall Street term for when a stock index falls 20 percent from its last peak.
—Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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Bear market
A bear market is a term used by Wall Street when an index such as the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen 20% or more from a recent high for a sustained period of time.
—Cora Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2025
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Bill Prady, Variety, 3 May 2025
The Nasdaq, which entered a bear market in early April, managed to eke out a gain of 0.85% across the month.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
The benchmark is about 16 percent below its closing high in mid-February, as rounds of selling have pulled the index closer to a bear market, a Wall Street term for when a stock index falls 20 percent from its last peak.
—Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Here is a guide to some of the most common words:
Bear market
A bear market is a term used by Wall Street when an index such as the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen 20% or more from a recent high for a sustained period of time.
—Cora Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bear market
bull market
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By the second half of last week, the tape had settled back into a low-drama upward grind, the kind of boring-is-beautiful action that often prevails in trending bull markets, including Friday’s late-day levitation to seal a 5.3% weekly gain.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
17 May 2025
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The last bull market showed that companies with bitcoin treasuries tend to outperform their peers, and the current one may follow suit.—
Georgii Verbitskii,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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“Bear market.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bear%20market. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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