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Finance: What's the Difference Between Bear and Bull? 159 Views
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What is the difference between Bear and Bull? Bear and Bull are two different ways to describe the market. If there is a bear market, investors are not confident in the market and stock prices are dropping. If there is a bull market, investors are confident in the market and stock prices are rising.
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Finance a la shmoop what's the difference between bear and bull? bear
- 00:07
pessimistic bad growly things coming Negative Nancy boo bear...Bull [Bear walking into water]
- 00:13
awesomesauce life's good you take it by the you know horns alright we're gonna
- 00:19
apply bear and bull to markets here but they apply to a whole lot of things and
- 00:22
a bear market is actually technical nomenclature that refers to sustained or [Bear market definition on 100 dollar bill]
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- 00:27
prolonged periods of time where stock prices generally just fall...three
- 00:31
four five six seven eight quarters where the market craps the bed down down down
- 00:35
the bear market pattern is different from just a correction when the market
- 00:40
takes just a short term dump and then well you know quickly recovers yeah like [Bear market graph]
- 00:45
it has a bad quarter or two and then starts climbing again well that's not
- 00:49
the big bad bear that's just a correction a bull market is just the
- 00:53
opposite it goes up up up like this guy in his balloon-powered house and that's [House with balloons travels up a stock value graph]
- 00:57
it both are dangerous in the wild but on Wall Street huh you just have to watch
- 01:01
out for the Bears [Bear chasing a woman]
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