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  USATODAY.com - Why does this bull market lack powerful punch?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Regardless of how you massage the return data for the current bull market — whether you're looking at median or average returns or returns posted after massive multiyear lows or returns in 401(k) plans — the math just doesn't add up to the kind of big numbers stock investors expect during a bull market.
At the start of the bull market in October 2002, the price-earnings ratio on the SandP 500 was 28, vs. a historic average of 16, InvesTech Research says.
Bull markets tend to fare best when interest rates are falling or holding steady.
www.usatoday.com /money/markets/us/2005-08-09-toothless-bull-usat_x.htm   (1485 words)

  
  Bull market - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A bull market is a prolonged period of time when prices are rising in a financial market faster than their historical average.
The longest and most famous bull market was in the 1990s when the U.S. and many other global financial markets grew at their fastest pace ever [1].
The tendency is for positive surprises to characterise a bull market (when the news continually tends to exceed investor's expectations) and conversely negative surprises tend to characterise the bear market (with expectations disappointed).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bull_market   (491 words)

  
 Bull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In English, the word "bull" alone is usually spoken to refer specifically to male cattle, with terms such as "bull elephant" disambiguating the term for other species.
In the British Army, and sometimes elsewhere, "bull" is slang for drill and equipment-cleaning that the men consider to be excessive.
A papal bull is a written communication from the Vatican, bearing the papal seal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bull   (255 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Bull market
Dow Theory attempts to describe the character of these market movements In finance, financial markets facilitate: The raising of capital (in the capital markets); The transfer of risk (in the derivatives markets); and International trade (in the currency markets).
A bear market is a prolonged period of time when prices are falling in a financial market.
A stock market bubble is a type of economic bubble taking place in stock markets, in which a wave of public enthusiasm, evolving into herd behavior, causes an exaggerated bull market.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bull-market   (1361 words)

  
 Understanding Bull & Bear Markets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Simply put, bull markets are movements in the stock market in which prices are rising and the consensus is that prices will continue moving upward.
To qualify as a bull or bear market, a market must have been moving in its current direction (by about 20% of its value) for a sustained period.
The longest-lived bull market in U.S. history is the one that began in 1991 and ended in 2000.
www.ameritrade.com /educationv2/fhtml/stockmarket/bullbear.fhtml   (1012 words)

  
 An S&P 500 Cyclical Bull?
The classical definition of a bull market is a 20%+ gain in a major asset class over a time period greater than one year.
But when the markets can somehow manage to cobble together both key ingredients, a 20%+ gain over a period of one year or longer, an official bull market is born.
Remember, all a bull market is is a 20%+ gain in a major asset over a period of one year or more.
www.zealllc.com /2003/spxbull.htm   (3086 words)

  
 Bull Market and bear market
Bull market is a market where people expect rapid increase in the value of their financial investments.
Bull market is characterized by optimism, rising stock prices and belief that stock values will rise in short-term future.
Bear market is a market where people expect a rapid decrease in the value of their financial investments.
www.learning-to-invest.com /Bull-Market-and-bear-market--13.html   (382 words)

  
 Bull & Bear's Market Outlook
The market has been unable to make any sustainable headway in spite of major positive reversals in its previous concerns, which were the dismal employment picture, the unexpected string of lousy economic numbers in January and February, and concerns about what those lousy economic numbers might mean for 1st quarter earnings.
On these ten occasions, the bull markets which were in effect at the time, had on the average - a long way to go once the initial 5% correction was out of the way.
Because the commodity market bubble is inconsistent with the stock and bond bubbles, and because the current Nasdaq pattern is suggestive of a looming crash.
www.thebullandbear.com /digest/0504-digest/0504-markets.html   (5196 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Bull market Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A bull market is a financial market where prices of instruments are, on average, trending higher.
The bull market tends to be associated with rising investor confidence and expectations of further cap...
A bull market is a financial market where prices of instruments (e.g.
www.ipedia.com /bull_market.html   (329 words)

  
 Bull Market by Seth Godin: Marketing Directory
The 280 Group LLC is excited to be the only Product Marketing firm included in the Bull Market Directory, a free ebook marketing directory by Seth Godin, entrepreneur and author of the bestselling book Purple Cow*.
The Bull Market Directory is a resource for connecting organizations with some of the world's most creative thinkers and companies such as the 280 Group that can help to define, launch and market breakthrough new "Purple Cow" products.
Note: The Bull Market Marketing Directory is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
www.280group.com /bullmarket.htm   (211 words)

  
 TAP: Vol 10, Iss. 42. Bull Market Keynsianism. Dean Baker.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As the unemployment rate fell into the accepted NAIRU range in early 1994, Alan Greenspan testified that he thought that the labor markets were reaching their limits and that unemployment could not fall further.
This effect was particularly strong in the last two years, as the stock market created more than $5 trillion of additional wealth in 1996 and 1997 alone.
By creating $8 trillion in new wealth, the stock market provided a basis for a spending spree among the segment of the population that owns significant amounts of stock.
www.prospect.org /print/V10/42/baker-d.html   (2817 words)

  
 USNews.com: Money: Investing in an aging bull market (10/13/05)
For the record, the current bull market was born on Oct. 9, 2002, when the Standard and Poor's 500 index of blue-chip stocks had sunk to a low of 776.76.
To be sure, as bull markets age, they tend to slow down—sometimes considerably.
Indeed, the SandP's average performance in fourth years of bull markets is a 14 percent gain.
www.usnews.com /usnews/biztech/articles/051013/13finance.htm?track=rss   (498 words)

  
 Bull market close to 2nd anniversary - Oct. 2, 2004
If that was the end of it -- if the market isn't about to make another run taking it to new highs -- the latest bull market was the shortest in the past 55 years.
But he also added that the current bull market could be one of the runty ones that come along every so often during rocky economic times and last about 600 days or so.
The bad news is they might be forced to do so for many years to come, if one other historical pattern -- the tendency of the market to post sharp gains for 16 years, then to muddle along for 16 years -- holds as some analysts think it will.
money.cnn.com /2004/09/30/markets/bull_birthday/index.htm   (826 words)

  
 BestOnlineTrades.com - The coming bull market in Gold
If you study markets and psychology long enough, you will understand that the markets are to some degree a barometer of the social mood and lead to certain historical events.
Well, the bull market from 1980 to 2000 was the age of peace and prosperty and wealth.
According to Marty, new bull markets are only born when you have a concentration of capital going into the new sector coming from all around the world.
www.bestonlinetrades.com /goldbullmarket.html   (4889 words)

  
 Stock Market
The stock market is not a specific place, though some people use the term "Wall Street"—the main street in New York City's financial district—to refer to the U.S. stock market in general.
When the stock market opened at the end of the eighteenth century, prices were based on the Spanish dollar, which is divided into eighths.
A "bull market" is a period when stock prices are generally rising.
www.infoplease.com /spot/stockmarket.html   (876 words)

  
 Bull Market
The housing market started zooming up as the turn-of-the-century stock bubble burst, which sent investors who were looking for double- digit returns away from the Nasdaq and toward Las Vegas condos.
Also, banks are under pressure from regulators to tighten their lending standards, which should decrease interest-only loans and adjustable-rate mortgages, making it harder for people with marginal finances to buy a house or condo.
If the froth dissipates from the housing market, perhaps stocks will return to their place as the speculators' investment of choice.
www.icarrtel.net /bullmarket   (1955 words)

  
 TimingCube - A stealth bull market - stealth bull market, secular bear market, cyclical bull market, secular and ...
After declining all the way to the October 2002 intermediate bear market low, the market has been in a moderate but clear uptrend we call a cyclical bull market.
All the reasons why the market has to soon come down are given great exposure, and while yesterday's high flying companies are floundering or getting a beating, many under-the-radar stocks are continuing to show strength and keep setting new highs.
Unlike the Nasdaq, the Russell 2000 has been setting new all-time highs and you would have to be blind and deaf not to notice the bull market in progress.
www.timingcube.com /040706   (1097 words)

  
 Bull Market Report - Creating Long Term Wealth
Bull Market Report News Flashes: Emailed to all subscribers whenever there is a ratings change (buy, sell, hold) or “must-have” news, News Flashes keep subscribers up-to-date and armed with information.
Readers are advised that the commentary and reports on the Bull Market Report website and in its newsletters are issued solely for informational purposes and should not to be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security.
Raging Capital Management, LLC, Indie Research, LLC, and each of their respective managers, clients, officers, directors, partners, contributors or employees/consultants may on occasion hold positions in the securities mentioned in the Bull Market Report and in its newsletters; in all instances, relevant positions are appropriately disclosed at http://www.bullmarket.com/holdings.php.
www.bullmarket.com   (1379 words)

  
 Bull Market
The term "bull market" is most often used in respect to the stock market, but really can be applied to anything that is traded, such as bonds, currencies, commodities, etc.
Bull markets are characterized by optimism, investor confidence and expectations that strong results will continue.
These actions are metaphors for the movement of a market: if the trend is up, it is considered a bull market.
www.investopedia.com /terms/b/bullmarket.asp   (420 words)

  
 Brandweek: A Bull's Market - the marketing of Red Bull energy drink   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fueling Red Bull's growth is a mystique created by outlandish rumors about its contents: it is "liquid Viagra"; its secret ingredient is bull's testicles; someone overdosed from the drink because it has drugs in it.
Events include the Red Bull Huckfest, a ski and snowboard freestyle competition held in January in Snowbird, Utah; and the Red Bull "Flugtag" (German for flying day),premiering in the U.S. this fall.
Red Bull tops the list big time," said Jim Jackson, category manager for non-carbonated beverages at 7-Eleven, Dallas." [Their success is due to] their single-product focus, major advertising dollars and distribution.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BDW/is_22_42/ai_75286777   (1441 words)

  
 The Bull Market Biotech Investor
Starting in June, publication of The Bull Market Biotech Investor will occur on the 5th and 20th of each month (as opposed to every other week).
And because this type of general market or sector weakness can last for months (or sometimes even years) on end, we think now might be a good time to re-evaluate some of our Biotech holdings.
After analyzing both the long- and short-term prospects for many of these firms, we've decided to weed out some of the companies that could be years away from profitability, or whose drug pipelines aren't quite as far along as we might like to see.
www.bullmarket.com /tdbi/053002.php3   (5215 words)

  
 Bull market - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A bear market may be fueled by sound economic fundamentals or by speculation.
An exaggerated bull market fueled by speculation is called a stock market bubble.
The opposite of a bull market is a bear market where the market is falling.
www.questionz.net /Finance_topics/Bull_market.html   (239 words)

  
 The Big Bull Market
Anybody who had chosen this moment to predict that the bull market was on the verge of a wild advance which would make all that had gone before seem trifling would have been quite mad-or else inspired with a genius for mass psychology.
The big bull operators knew, too, that thousands of speculators had been selling stocks short in the expectation of a collapse in the market, would continue to sell short, and could be forced to repurchase if prices were driven relentlessly up.
During that "Hoover bull market" of November, 1928, the records made earlier in the year were smashed to flinders.
xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/ALLEN/ch12.html   (6631 words)

  
 » The Bull Market The Bull Trader - #1 Stock Charts Market Blog
I have finally witnessed how easy it is to make money in a bull market and how easy it is to lose it in a bear market.
I only started tracking the markets just a few months ago in July, which happened to be in the midst of a roaring bull market.
All opinion in this stock charts market blog is intended for educational purpose only and none of us are liable for any potential damages that may be incurred from this information.
www.thebulltrader.com /187/the-bull-market   (315 words)

  
 FSO Editorials: The Bull Market is Dead! by M.A. Nystrom 01/28/2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The dead-cat bounce was purely a technical rebound, a phenomenon common in all sharp market drops.
As long as the bull market remains alive in the mind of the investor, there remains the possibility of that new sports car, the house with the ocean view, of early retirement, and telling the boss to take the job and shove it!
If the bull market has died in the price of shares, it will continue to live on in the minds of guileless investors who continue to buy and hold, down the slippery slope-of-hope, to the end of the line where shares are worthless and dreams are demolished.
www.financialsense.com /editorials/2005/0128.html   (1501 words)

  
 It's a (Red) Bull Market After All
And for Red Bull's target audience, being authentic means being a bit irreverent, a bit antiestablishment, and every bit different from your parents, says Marc Gobé, president and CEO of the desgrippes gobé group, a New York-based branding firm with a client list that includes Godiva, Versace, and Starbucks.
Many of Red Bull's extreme events -- cliff diving in Hawaii and skateboarding in San Francisco -- are for athletes only, designed "to support a community of athletes and to bring credibility to the sports they compete in," says Emmy Cortes, director of communications for Red Bull.
But if Red Bull continues to amass consumers and increase its profits every year, Koehn predicts that the company will introduce related products "carefully, tightly linked to Red Bull's core offering." In the meantime, Red Bull is simply working to keep tabs on all the rumors circulating about its beverage.
www.fastcompany.com /articles/2001/10/redbull.html   (1698 words)

  
 bull market Definition
Bull markets can happen as a result of an economic recovery, an economic boom, or investor psychology.
The longest and most famous bull market is the one that began in the early 1990s in which the U.S. equity markets grew at their fastest pace ever.
Find the latest market news and data as well as details about the most actively traded stocks.
www.investorwords.com /616/bull_market.html   (179 words)

  
 Financial Sense: "The Coming Bull Market in Gold Stocks" by Frank Barbera 04.14.2005
In this vein, one approach to markets analysis is Elliott Wave Theory, which is largely predicated on the concept that markets are a reflection of mass psychology in motion.
This Great Bear Market plumbed the depths of negative human psychology and was then followed by a resumption of mankinds' longer-term march toward progress with the Bull Market from 1932 to 1937.
This bull market yielded to economic turmoil in the 1860s and 1870s associated with the depression aftermath of the U.S. Civil War.
www.financialsense.com /editorials/barbera/2005/0414.html   (3369 words)

  
 Behold the Gold Bull!
Once again, since there have been so many bull markets in history to observe and learn from, the midline morphing from resistance to support was also something that could be anticipated if the gold bull market was to be the real thing.
The free markets are ruthlessly punishing those naïve enough to invest in heavy hedgers in a secular gold bull as the “hedge tax” rockets through the stratosphere.
I love secular bull markets and am so thankful for this week’s gold breakout assuring the world that this gold bull is the real deal.
www.zealllc.com /2002/goldbull.htm   (3265 words)

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