Using the more nuanced definition of
a bear market quoted above, there have actually been two of them since March 2009!
Not exact matches
Volumes in those
markets are light enough it's hard to pin down an exact
quote, but for example the mid estimate for a JNK
bear put spread at 40 and 39 maturing in January 2020 is $ 0.75.
An oft
quoted line from celebrated fund manager Sir John Templeton stated, «Bull
markets are
born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.»
Quoted from Empiritrage.com: «We propose a model that is designed to identify bull -
market and
bear -
market regimes.
Dan Wiener's
quote in the Rodriguez - Tower paper accused Vanguard of lying to its customers, delivering inferior performance with its index funds, and exposing its fund shareholders to the «worst risks of
bear markets.»
What I also like was the
quote about how to gradually move from 75 % equities to 25 % starting in mid career - taking money off the table when there was a bull
market and standing pat when there was a
bear market.
Bear in mind, also, that two prices are
quoted for closed - end funds: Net asset value (which is the per share actual value of the bond portfolio); and share price (the
market price of the funds) prior to commission costs.
Share prices can change rapidly during the trading day, especially prices for low - priced and / or thinly traded shares, and
quotes shown after the
markets are closed often
bear no relation to the price a stock or exchange traded fund might start trading at the next trading day.
are you really that naive, duncan to think that NONE of the big players on wall st. shorted
bear stearns to that price... my guess is you don't know about the uptick rule, so why are you
quoting the stock
market and its spectacular losses when it comes to betting, and ignoring the gains it also generates?
«The Nasdaq's
bear market from 2000 had five price declines, averaging a surprisingly similar amount of 44 percent,» Shah said,
quoted by CNBC.
According to Spevok,
Bear, Stearns is aggressively
quoting deals in every
market, including the smaller
markets that most national lenders avoid for fear cheap land will attract competing projects.