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The Wall Street subprime loan crisis and bankruptcy of Lehman Bros., real estate crashes in Ireland and Spain, the solvency scare of Greece, and three separate bear market declines in mainland China equities — repeat, three — all clawed at equity prices around the globe.

That combination of features has encouraged my adoption of a constructive or even leveraged investment stance after every bear market decline in three decades as a professional investor.

Still, the fact is that I've adopted a constructive outlook after every bear market decline in over 30 years as a professional investor (including late - 2008 after the market collapsed by over 40 %, though that shift was truncated by my insistence on stress - testing), and I've also repeatedly anticipated the steepest losses.

That's the point that observers who consider me a «permabear» may become deeply confused, but again, I've done the same after every bear market decline in over 30 years of investing.

Conversely, my adoption of a constructive or leveraged investment stance after every bear market decline in the past three decades typically reflected the combination of a material retreat in valuations coupled with an early improvement in our measures of market action (though my early measures were rather crude).

The Dow continued its bear market decline in 1969, as Vietnam protests and economic malaise persisted.

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If growing unemployment was not enough, a decline in labor market participation was also on the rise, the ILO said, a warning borne out by the latest U.S. jobs data from December which showed that the labor force participation rate tumbled to 62.8 percent, its worst level since January 1978.

The Fed has noted the decline in the «market based» measures of inflation — i.e. breakevens — and said these too look transitory, though these do bear close watching.

Additionally, in a bear market, if the fundamentals of a security remain strong but the market price declines, then yields go up.

Following the sharpest decline in crude oil prices in at least a century, as well as a six - year bear market in metals, the global environment could be ripe for a commodity rebound.

See «Bear Market Insights» on the Research & Insight page of our website to get an idea of how this felt in the 73 - 74 decline.

Given that the recent decline had placed the market in a somewhat oversold condition, Thursday's bounce demonstrated nothing to distinguish it from a typical bear market rally - fast, furious, prone to failure.

These were points that followed snap - back rallies that were actually good selling opportunities in what turned out to be violent bear market declines.

The stock has now suffered the deepest price correction — a decline of at least 10 % from a significant high, since the stock climbed out of its 2012 - 2013 bear market in August 2013.

So if you assume that the pattern holds, we are either in a secular bear market or we will get a large decline once we get a 2 % down day.

«Since the value of your retirement account is declining in a bear market, the best strategy is to take no money out,» he said.

We can't rule out a quarter of positive GDP growth, as we saw in early 1974 (followed by a further decline and bear market plunge), but we can't see any basis on which to expect sustained and robust GDP growth yet, and certainly not robust earnings growth.

Likewise, high bearishness is typically not a positive early in bear markets, because the initial decline is often fairly deep.

Bear market declines average 1.25 years in duration, during which time stocks fall at an average rate of about -28 % annualized.

What most bears fail to realize is that a decline in the chicken market, whether through falling chicken prices or increasing corn prices, is already (more than adequately) priced into the company's valuation, as we will show below.

And if we assume the DOW Index is indeed peaking, and that the subsequent bear market might be the average decline of the last two bear markets in magnitude and time duration, then the DOW Index could conceivably drop to 9000 by the Ides of March of 2016.

Several countries» stock markets entered corrections (i.e., declines in excess of 10 %), and Japan's energetic bull market quickly became a bear market (down 20 % from the peak).

In contrast, I don't believe that we have the ability to «call» market bottoms, market tops, rallies, declines, bull markets or bear markets.

This instance may be different in the near term, but a century of evidence argues that the completion of the market cycle will wipe out the majority of the gains observed in the advancing portion to - date (even without valuations similar to the present, the average, run - of - the - mill bear market decline has erased more than half of the market gains from the preceding bull market advance).

Putting aside the performance of bonds during the bear market beginning in 1980 (both because the starting yields on Treasuries were so high but also because the bear market was relatively mild as the decline began from relatively low levels of valuation), what's interesting about the above chart is how dependably bonds protected a portfolio during equity bear markets.

An even more confident signal is given by a fixed - value offer in which sellers are assured of a stipulated market value while acquirers bear the entire cost of any decline in their share price before closing.

The best framework for bonds protecting portfolio capital during equity bear markets is: average to above - average starting bond yields, with an average to above - average rate of inflation — which is set to decline in a recession - induced bear market.

During bear markets beginning in 1980, 2000, and 2007 — the ones in which bond exposure was most helpful — the rate of inflation declined.

The two most recent bear markets, strong bond returns helped offset deep declines in equities, helping the balanced portfolio incur less than half of the drawdown of an equity - only portfolio.

Rates subsequently bear steepened as long - end led the weakness, but renewed decline in risk sentiment managed to create a soft ceiling for bond yields, and the rates market rallied into the close.

This is because the Fed often begins cutting rates only in the later portions of bear market declines.

Worse, without a collapse in an already low rate of inflation, bonds may not provide the same offset to declining equity values like they have in recent equity bear markets.

Notice that during the last three bear markets, and especially during the last two major stock - market declines beginning in 2000 and 2007, bonds ramped up their defensive characteristics, helping a standard policy portfolio avoid between roughly 55 and 70 percent of the drawdown.

Corrections driven by emerging cracks in the economic foundation can turn into bear markets as a recession emerges and corporate profits decline.

Obviously, with a cyclical asset you will find losses and the widest spread between price and financial operating metrics because a trough occurs in a bear market of declining product prices.

People say that we're not going to have a bear market until the economy goes into a recession and I argue that it's going to be the rise in interest rates that leads to a decline in stocks that then leads to the recession.

In fact, in the past 50 years, every bear market (except for the «Black Monday» decline in 1987) was accompanied by a recessioIn fact, in the past 50 years, every bear market (except for the «Black Monday» decline in 1987) was accompanied by a recessioin the past 50 years, every bear market (except for the «Black Monday» decline in 1987) was accompanied by a recessioin 1987) was accompanied by a recession.

They are 2007, 1987, 1972 and 1966 — all prior to significant bear market declines, though the market drifted a few percent higher over a 6 - month period in the 1972 instance.

Since 1960 there have been 9 bear markets (decline of 20 % or more in the overall stock market).

«A short, sharp break off of all - time highs is never how bear markets begin» adding they tend to fall by 2 to 3 percent a month over their entire duration, with most of the decline coming in the last 40 percent.

If you believe that stocks will continue to advance in the months and years ahead, with no intervening bear market decline, those instances are the main points where «don't fight the trend» might outweigh negative return / risk considerations more generally.

The instance before that was in February 1966, which was promptly followed by a bear market decline over the following year.

Conversly, in a bear market, declines are accompanied by increasing volume and advances show diminishing volume.

Even the best funds decline in value during either a correction or a bear market.

The scariest declines in bear markets are typically the ones when investors think they are making progress and recovering their losses, only to see stocks go into a new free - fall.

A bear market can lead to a recession which is defined by Investopedia as, «A significant decline in activity across the economy, lasting longer than a few months.

It would be convenient if such bounces could be predicted in advance, but as we observed last year, the market can become very persistently oversold during bear markets, and even an «oversold» decline can go much deeper until the oversold condition is abruptly cleared.

Bull markets — periods in which prices as a group tend to rise — and bear markets — periods of declining prices — can lead investors to make irrational choices.

In looking at all sides of the argument about share repurchases, one could say that companies that were repurchasing their own shares during the bull market of the 1990s looked smart as the value of their shares continued to go up, and foolish a decade later in the bear market of the 2000s as their shares declined in valuIn looking at all sides of the argument about share repurchases, one could say that companies that were repurchasing their own shares during the bull market of the 1990s looked smart as the value of their shares continued to go up, and foolish a decade later in the bear market of the 2000s as their shares declined in valuin the bear market of the 2000s as their shares declined in valuin value.

Finally, if AIG had defaulted, Goldman Sachs would have been forced to bear the risk of further declines in the market value of the approximately $ 4.3 billion in CDOs that it transferred to the Maiden Lane III portfolio as well as approximately $ 5.5 billion for its credit default swaps that were not part of the Maiden Lane III portfolio; Maiden Lane III removed any risk for the $ 4.3 billion within that portfolio, and continued Government backing of AIG provided Goldman Sachs with ongoing protection against an AIG default on the remaining $ 5.5 billion.