The phrase
"bear periods" typically refers to times when the value of stocks or financial markets is decreasing or going down. It means that investors are selling their stocks because they expect prices to fall further, hence the term "bear" which represents a downward market trend.
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Furthermore, it gives you something to do during other players» turns, which in previous games were usually just
boring periods of downtime.
The firm argues that the drop will lack the 20 - 40 % pullbacks that have characterized the past three
bear periods dating back to 1987.
In this
first bear period the S&P 500 crashed -51 %; and in the second bear correction S&P 500 crashed -59 %.
A beautiful but stolid,
screamingly boring period piece with acting so wooden as to invite unfavorable comparison to a collection of popsicle sticks.
A
secular bear period has also typically compresed several cyclical bull - bear cycles, where each bear market achieves a successively lower level of market valuation at its trough.
And when you put bull and
bear periods together, the fund has outperformed the index in each complete market cycle.
Even against 400 % + return of Sun Pharma, small cap peers Ajanta Pharma generated more than 5000 % + (100 times) return during your above mentioned period.Similarly against 200 % + return of ITC, Page Industries (and many more) generated better return during the
prolonged bear period.
There are not many great Adversarial media as many throw out rules for time sake (real U.S. trials have many
long boring periods during testimony) and story / drama sake.
As an investor uninterested in owning equities, it's a rather uneventful and
boring period of the market cycle.
So if it truly is curtains for the bond bull market, how long will
the bear period last?
Cawood and Chris Hawkesworth, also at St Andrews, analysed studies of continental motions and geologic processes to see how they lined up with
the boring period.
So im thinking, if i invest in Franklin during
a bear period and ABSL during bull period will it be good strategy??