bear market—(Stock Market) a period of time when the prices of securities are falling or are expected to fall, and investors pull out their money:
- Two months before the end of the bear market, Business Week ran an article titled “Running scared from stocks.”
bull market—(Stock Market) a period when investment seems promising and people are keen to do it:
- While the bull market in Asian growth is far from over, there is also a lot of Latin American growth that is going unnoticed.