bear market

American  

[bair mahr-kit] / ˈbɛər ˈmɑr kɪt /

noun

Stock Exchange.

1. a financial market characterized by investment prices that are falling or that are forecast to fall.

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bear market Cultural  

1. A market, especially a stock market, characterized by falling prices; the opposite of a bull market.

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Etymology

Origin of bear market

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

This contrast is illustrated in the accompanying chart, which is based on bull and bear markets since 2000 in the calendar maintained by Ned Davis Research.

From Barron's

In other words, a reshuffling of the deck isn’t a bear market.

From Barron's

Young investors are accelerating the next bear market.

From MarketWatch

That’s probably good short-term news for investors, since falling profit margins would precipitate a severe bear market.

From MarketWatch

Yet more to the point, he thinks AI stocks will be the big winners in the second half of the year, because no one in power can afford a bear market.

From Barron's