| | Encyclopedia article: Bear market (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | By one common definition, a bear market is marked by a price decline of 20% or more in a key stock market index (Index based on a statistical compilation of the share prices of a number of representative stocks) from a recent peak over at least a two-month period. |
 | | Indeed, a long bear market may include periods of temporary price increases, known as a bear market rally (additional info and facts about bear market rally). |
 | | The origin of "bull market" is even more obscure, but may relate to the common use of these animals in bloodsport (additional info and facts about bloodsport), i.e bear-baiting (additional info and facts about bear-baiting) and bull-baiting (additional info and facts about bull-baiting). |
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