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bear marketIn securities and commodities trading, a declining market. A bear is an investor who expects prices to decline and, on this assumption, sells a borrowed security or commodity in the hope of buying it back later at a lower price, a speculative transaction called short-selling. See also bull market. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But Romer forgot one thing: Bear markets inevitably follow bull markets. Japan has seen eight cyclical bear markets as defined by "more than a 20 percent correction" since 1950, but four of these were during the secular bear market of the Heisei Depression. One of the black pioneers in the creation and marketing of mutual funds, he's made millions for institutional and individual investors in bull and bear markets for 20 years. |
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