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What is a Bear Market?

A bear market is slang for when stock prices have decreased for an extended period of time.  If an investor is "bearish" they are referred to as a bear because they believe a particular company, industry, sector, or market in general is going to go down.

A bear market is the opposite of a bull market.

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