Really brutal
bear markets like the biggest one in the Great Depression were so brutal that there is nothing to compare it to — financial leverage collapsed that had been encouraged by government policy, the Fed, and a speculative mania among greedy people.
Bear markets like the one we had in 2008 - 2009 offer the opportunity to reposition assets in the three legs through Roth conversions or harvesting losses in the taxable account.
Perhaps getting through
bear markets like Ben Graham or Jim Slater or investing in the volatile small caps favored by the latter helped fortify them for the long - term — physically as well as financially?
We've previously shown that companies with consistently high returns on invested capital (ROIC) are stocks that are able to withstand market downturns, especially
bear markets like the market crash of 2008.
I expect us to have a multi-year
bear market like the one we just had where LTC dropped 90 % in value ($ 48 to $ 4).
Treat
a bear market like a friend.
So unless the economy deteriorates significantly, the stock market will not enter into
a bear market like 2000 - 2002 or 2007 - 2009.
Carefully consider your exposure to stocks, especially if you have never been through a real
bear market like in 2008 - 09, or the 2000 dotcom bust.
I expect us to have a multi-year
bear market like the one we just had where LTC dropped 90 % in value ($ 48 to $ 4).
Not exact matches
A
bear market refers to when the major averages are down by more than 10 percent from their highs and seem
like they could go lower.
Or: We're business -
like, but not
boring, and we don't use gobbledygook phrases such as
market - leading and world - class.
The house
likes Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, which has a defensive sector mix that tends to outperform in a
bear market, he added.
Like many in the
markets, though, Sam Wiseman, chief investment officer at Toronto's Wise Capital Management, is tiring of the
bears» unwavering growl.
Billionaire bond veteran Bill Gross of Janus Henderson is a vocal bond
bear, saying this month that «bonds,
like men, are in a
bear market.»
We're having good stock
market performance, money is being made, but workers are not
bearing the fruits of that recovery the way all of us would
like.»
The idea was originally developed in the early 1930s by the Russian -
born economist Simon Kuznets, who was commissioned by the U.S. government to come up with a better way to measure economic activity — and guide an increasingly interventionist government policy — than relying on shaky indicators
like the stock
market and railcar loadings.
«While many
markets are becoming more
like Japan, I think the culture here is still very unique and special, so many products that are
born here will stay here,» Garduño noted.
«We're in a
bear market until new buyers are enticed,» Paul said, adding that institutions are delaying putting money into the
market until investment vehicles
like ETFs get approved.
Jim Chanos, a well - known short - seller and
market bear on companies
like Tesla (tsla) and Alibaba (baba), is piling on to Valeant Pharmaceuticals» (vrx) misfortunes.
I'm known in digital
marketing circles for having a multitude of colorful iPhone cases shaped
like Rilakkuma, the famous Japanese teddy
bear character.
A
bear market will make even low costs index funds look
like a bad bet.
Stocks are at record highs but the
market leaders are mostly
boring, bond alternatives,
like telecoms and utilities.
Certainly, there are signs of renewed uncertainty — or at least of an approaching
bear market — but it's a far better, more hopeful economy than what the nation faced in 2008 - 2009 when unemployment was growing
like an epidemic and no one knew exactly where the bottom might be found.
We've already experienced two
market crashes in the twenty - first century, which is why some people feel that the next
bear market will look
like the previous two episodes.
-LSB-...] What does a bond
bear market look
like?
Remember that a
bear market is
like a spouse abuser who hands his black - eyed mate a dozen roses the next morning saying «Come on, Baby, I've changed».
Generally, a
bear market happens when major indexes
like the S&P 500, which tracks the performance of 500 companies» stocks, and the Dow Jones industrial average, which follows 30 of the largest stocks, drop by 20 percent or more from a peak and stay that low for at least two months.
Even in a
bear market,
like the current one, there is a large amount of interest by institutional investors, VCs and developers percolating under the surface that is set to drive the
market in the future.
Things
like bear markets and big corrections can cause big upward swings.
It's easy to put it in the back of your mind when it seems
like all stocks do is rise but it's a question of when, not if, the next
bear market will hit.
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However, we are not in the early stages of a new secular
bear market for commodities (or the ETFs which represent those commodities
like XLE).
Being almost 100 % invested after repeatedly buying through the
bear market,
like anyone invested I've seen a big bounce.
People are discouraged from the sector in periods
like we're in now where we've seen several years of vicious
bear markets where people are afraid and they miss the sector just as it's about to turn.
Mebane Faber has shown in his The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest
Like the Top Endowments and Avoid
Bear Markets how this strategy has historically done a good job of reducing portfolio drawdown and volatility.
Familiar durable
bear -
market bottoms stand out,
like in 1982 and 1974.
Entertaining as it may be, it's mostly a waste of time trying to label what type of environment we're in, because much of the time,
like today, we're in neither a bull nor
bear market.
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMahxoftUFc] The Reformed Broker, AKA Buddy Lembeck, here with today's
Market Recap... Much
like Rhymefest * gives up the battle to Big Daddy Kane in the above video (my favorite of ’09 so far), the
bears had to give it up to the bulls today as banks and techs stole the show.
The chart below graphically shows what the past three bull -
bear cycles have looked
like, with a projection of the coming
bear market.
And just
like stock
bear markets, most investors will be shocked every time the next downturn hits.
During relatively mild equity
bear markets,
like the one from 1980 through 1982, bonds rallied strongly.
Following an 18 - year Bull
market, and a three year
Bear market, we are now committed to what looks
like a long - term military obligation in Iraq.
A
market downturn or
bear market likely won't stop someone from visiting a fast food chain restaurant or getting a haircut from a place
like Great Clips.
At that point our psyches were screeching
like fingernails down a blackboard as the major world equity
markets slid into
bear market territory1.
This may seem
like a silly thing to think about now, but you don't start planning for a
bear market after it occurs.
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.
In today's report, we will review what that
bear super-cycle looks
like for oil, what forces are conspiring to keep oil prices range - bound for years to come, and what would need to happen for a bull
market to begin.
In my original article I also tested the 10 month moving average system popularized in recent years by Mebane Faber in The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest
Like the Top Endowments and Avoid
Bear Markets.
One of my favorite tools for potentially reducing portfolio volatility and drawdown is to use the 10 month simple moving average strategy, popularized in recent years by Mebane Faber in The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest
Like the Top Endowments and Avoid
Bear Markets.
Looking at global oil demand, you can see it's been unrelenting through recessions, through bull
markets,
bear markets, and it looks
like it's going to continue to go up at a fairly steady level based on latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).