We had another mini bear market from 2007 to 2009, and another smaller bull market from 2009 to most recently this spring.
It was 17 years again, in 1923, before the sideways secular bear market ended and the market broke out above 100 for good, launching into the powerful bull market to the 1929 peak.
Our ratings for domestic stock funds look at long-term performance over four bull and bear market cycles stretching back 12 years.
Investors would do well to set aside these simplistic asset allocation questionnaires and canned computer programs used by advisors and replace them with some serious soul searching about their true financial needs, as well as reviewing their investment behavior during strong bull and bear market.
We had the 2000 crash, otherwise known as the dot-com crash, which was a bear market lasting from 2000 to 2002, and we had a mini bull market from 2003 to 2007.
And once they get out, usually due to painful losses, they tend to stay away from another relationship with the market for very long periods, like those who have been on the sidelines since the big bear market plunge of 2008 and early last year, not enticed back in for even part of the new bull market that began early last year.
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Risk is captured in our fund survey by the separate grades for bull market and bear market results.
And, of course, Kaplan is a young manager, still innocent of long-term bear markets, and prone to bull-market-baby syndrome.
It started with the final stages of a big bull market, then we got the second biggest bear market since the Great Depression, a five-year bull market in which stocks over doubled, the biggest bear market since the Great Depression, and the massive start of a new bull.
But it is pretty much agreed that when the market topped out in March 2000 it was the end of the long 1982-2000 secular bull market, and beginning of a 2000 to who knows when secular bear market.
In secular bear markets the periodic cyclical bull markets can be exciting and profitable, like the 2003-2007 bull market, and the current one, but are only temporary and the secular bear market takes over again.
Rowe Price Latin America Fund, which FORBES rates A for bull market performance and B for bear markets.
Does that mean that the current secular bear market will last until 2017, but that the current cyclical bull market will last a couple more years, and not end until it has reached its peak of 2000 again?
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In the stock market, we have bull and bear markets.
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The fund gets an "A" rating for bull markets and a "B" for bear market performance.
It may feel safe to put your money in the top performing funds in a bull market or into cash and bonds during a bear market, but both are actually riskier than they seem.
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The stock lagged in the prior bull market and fell fully with the market in the bear, so it's cheap now.
In many respects, rather than being feared, market corrections and bear markets offer better opportunities for profits than booming bull markets.
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Market conditions come in two flavors: bull and bear.
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And this new bear-to-bull ratio indicates a more positive market outlook rather than a pessimistic one from the usually on-target contrarian point of view.
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The Forbes fund rating system, which goes back half a century, looks at a minimum of two full market cycles and awards separate performance grades for bull and bear markets.
One of the most consistently reliable market prognosticators, Jim Stack of InvesTech Research, is convinced that the bear market is history and we're at the beginning of a new bull.
Were the present bull market to give way to another prolonged bear market, both states and firms might discover that the pensions burden they thought they had shaken off came back to haunt them.
Others lenders were willing to extend higher amounts of credit than the company was seeking, but in our view, the debt to equity ratio they were being offered was not healthy for the company, and not something that Hercules would support in either a bull or bear market.
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Unfortunately, over the very long-term the market cycles back and forth between secular bull markets and secular bear markets on a quite regular basis.
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They begin new bull markets together, experience occasional market corrections simultaneously, and sink into global bear markets at approximately the same time.
In secular bull markets the periodic cyclical bear markets can be devastating, like the 1987 crash, but are only temporary and the bull market resumes to ever higher highs.
This formation interrupts a previous trend and reaches completion once the resistance (in a bull market) or support (in a bear market) is overcome.
There were numerous cyclical bull markets and cyclical bear markets during the 16 years, but it was a time for market-timing not buy and hold.
His advice encourages investors to seek the benefits of preparation and risk management, the essential elements for investing through this secular bear toward the next secular bull market.
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