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Bear Market

Definition: Bear Market

Bear Market

Noun

1. A market characterized by falling prices for securities.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Bear Market

DomainDefinitions

Finance

In the securities trade, a declining market. One characterized by falling prices. . Source: European Union. (references)
 Characterised by consistent falls in share prices as a result of deteriorating prospects for industrial profitability. One or a number of factors such as rising interest rates or inflation, increases in raw material prices, poor trade performance, weakening currencies, GDP decline, tighter credit or overcapacity, may contribute. Source: European Union. (references)
 A condition of a stock market characterized by a selling trend and declining prices. Opposite of a bull market. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Bear market

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A Bear Market is where the value of shares listed on a stock exchange generally fall. Investors, anticipating further losses, are thus motivated to sell. An exaggerated bear market characterized by panic selling is called a stock market crash.

A bull market is where the market generally rises.

See also: Stock market, Financial market

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bear market."

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Crosswords: Bear Market

Specialty definitions using "bear market": stranded costs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bear Market

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bear Market Baloney (reference)

  • Bear Market Game Plan (reference)

  • Bear Market Investing Strategies (Wiley Trading) (reference)

  • Bear Market Investment Strategies (reference)

  • Fear, Greed and the End of the Rainbow: Guarding Your Assets in the Coming Bear Market (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bear Market

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bear Market

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bear market

91

bear market secular

7

bear market stock

3

bear market rally

3

2003 bear market

2
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Modern Translations: Bear Market

Language Translations for "bear market"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

bearmarked (bearish market), baissemarked (bearish market). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

baissemarkt (bearish market). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

laskevat markkinat (bearish market). (various references)

   

French

  

marché baissier (bearish market), marché la baisse. (various references)

   

German

  

bear Markt (bearish market), baisse (fall, slump). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πτωτική αγορά (bearish market). (various references)

   

Italian

  

mercato ribassista (bearish market), mercato al ribasso (bearish market). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earbay arketmay

   

Portuguese

  

bolsa na baixa (bearish market). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рынок с понижательной тенденцией. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mercado bajista (bearish market). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bearmarket (bearish market), bearishmarket (bearish market), baisse (decline, fall in prices, slump), nedåtriktad marknad (bearish market). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

fiyatların düştüğü piyasa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bear Market

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-k-m-r-r-t"

-2 letters: bakemeat, makebate, marketer, reembark, remarket, teamaker.

-3 letters: amreeta, breaker, earmark, meerkat, rebater, remaker, retaker.

-4 letters: abater, aerate, ambeer, amebae, barker, barret, barter, beaker, bearer, beater, bemata, berake, berate, betake, embark, errata, karate, krater, marker, market, ramate, reamer, rebate, remake, remark, remate, retake, reteam, retear, tambak, tearer, termer, terrae.

-5 letters: abate, abeam, amber, ameba, ameer, areae, arete, armer, armet, baker, barer, barre, beret, berme, brake, break, bream, eater, embar, ember, kabar, karat, karma, kebar, makar, maker, mater, merer, meter, metre, rabat, rakee, raker, ramee, ramet, rater, rearm, reata, rebar, remet, retem, taber, taker, tamer, tarre, terra.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bear Market


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 61 72      4D 61 72 6B 65 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01001101 01100001 01110010 01101011 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#32 &#77 &#97 &#114 &#107 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0061 0072      004D 0061 0072 006B 0065 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367167842476784777186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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