Glossary

Bear market

Negative stock market trend with sustained falling prices, usually in all market segments.

Investors in a bear market are generally pessimistic and take corresponding positions. For example, they sell their securities or take short positions to profit from falling prices.

As a result, prices fall over a longer period of time; bear markets are characterized by falling indices.

A figurative expression is the bear market. The opposite market trend of rising prices is referred to as a bull market.

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