In investing, a bear market rally is a temporary increase in price of a type of asset during a bear market. Investment is a term with several closely related meanings in finance and economics. ... Jump to: navigation, search A bear market is a phase in the life of a financial market, such as a stock market, in which the prices of most securities fall consistently, as reflected by a downward movement of one or more key stock market or other financial market indices. ...

This is most commonly used for stocks, but also applies to other assets. Jump to: navigation, search See stock (disambiguation) for other meanings of the term stock A stock, also referred to as a share, is commonly a share of ownership in a corporation. ...

A bear market rally is sometimes defined as a rise of at least 10%, but not more than 20%.

Of course, with this definition, whether a rise is a bear market rally can be determined only with hindsight. Sometimes, people think that a rise is the start of a new bull market, when it is only a bear market rally. On other occasions, commentators may argue that there has been a bear market rally, when in fact a new bull market has begun.

Notable bear market rallies occurred in the Dow Jones index in after the 1929 stock market crash leading up to the market bottom in 1932, as well as throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Japanese Nikkei stock average has been typified by a number of bear market rallies since the late 1980s while experiencing on overall downward trend. Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ), based in the United States is a publishing and financial information firm. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Jump to: navigation, search The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Jump to: navigation, search The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... Nikkei 225 (日経平均株価, 日経225) is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...

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