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Bear marketAny market in which prices exhibit a declining trend. For a prolonged period, usually falling by 20% or more.Bear marketA market in which sellers outnumber buyers and where the trend of share prices is consequently a falling one.The UK's longest running bear market lasted from 1972-1974. From a height of 530 points in 1972 the FT 30 Index fell consistently for more than two years, only reversing its downward trend at the start of 1975. It took almost five years - until the middle of 1977 - before it regained its mid-1972 level.Recent bear markets in the UK have not lasted so long. After Black Monday in October 1987, the FTSE 100 took until July 1989 to regain its pre-crash high of 2,250 points.Similar MatchesMarket rateMarket rateThe interest rate or exchange rate at which a market clears. Open marketsOpen marketsMarkets that are free of restrictions on who can buy and sell. Market orderMarket orderAn order to buy or sell securities or commodities at the best price with immediate effect. Market sweepMarket sweepA second offering following a tender offer, allowing institutional investors to obtain a controlling interest at a price higher than the original offer. Money marketMoney marketThe money market, in macroeconomics and international finance, refers to the equilibration of demand for a country's domestic money to its money supply. Both refer to the quantity of money that people in the country hold (a stock), not to the quantity that people both in and out of the country choose to acquire during a period in the exchange market, mostly for the purpose of then using it to buy something else. Further SuggestionsMoney market instrumentsMarket index Market out clause market price Second market Orderly Marketing Arrangement Marketable Title Specialist market First market Perfect market view (of dividend policy) grey market Market sectors International Security Market Association (ISMA) Secondary market Amman Financial Market (AFM) Real market Futures market Away from the market market indices close market Market power Security market line Nonmarketed claims Sensitive market Weak market |
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