WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bear market: When a stock or bond index, or a commodity’s price falls and keeps falling, it is considered to be in a bear market. Often a decline of 20 percent or more in a stock index is said to meet the threshold of a bear market.

Detailed explanation-2: -bear market, in securities and commodities trading, a declining market. A bear is an investor who expects prices to decline and, on this assumption, sells a borrowed security or commodity in the hope of buying it back later at a lower price, a speculative transaction called selling short.

Detailed explanation-3: -Investors are often categorised as bulls and bears. A “bull” by definition is an investor who buys shares because they believe the market is going to rise; whereas a “bear” will sell shares as they believe the market is going to turn negative.