{"id":31900,"date":"2025-04-10T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T03:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31900"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:11:50","slug":"bear-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bear-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bear Market Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>S&amp;P 500 \u2014- a stock market index that tracks the performance of 500 of the largest publicly traded companies in the US \u2014 briefly entered bear market territory for the first time since 2022 recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bear Market<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A bear market is a <strong>financial market experiencing prolonged price declines<\/strong>, <strong>generally of 20% or more<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A bear market usually<strong> occurs along <\/strong>with <strong>widespread investor pessimism, large-scale liquidation <\/strong>of securities and other assets, and a <strong>weakening economy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A <strong>bear is an investor <\/strong>who<strong> expects prices to declin<\/strong>e and, on this assumption, <strong>sells a borrowed security<\/strong> or commodity in the <strong>hope of buying it back later at a lower price<\/strong>, a speculative transaction called<strong> selling short.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bear markets are often associated with declines in an overall market or index, but <strong>individual securities <\/strong>or commodities <strong>can also be considered to be in a bear market <\/strong>if they<strong> experience a decline of 20% or more<\/strong> over a sustained period of time, typically <strong>two months or more.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bear markets also <strong>may accompany <\/strong>general economic downturns such as a <strong>recession<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are seen as the <strong>opposite of upward-trending bull markets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bear Market FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is a bear market in economics?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. A bear market occurs when stocks fall 20 percent from a recent peak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the longest bear market in history?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The longest bear market in history for the U.S. stock market occurred during the Great Depression, starting after the 1929 stock market crash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the term for an investor who expects prices to decline and acts accordingly?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Bear<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-economics\/us-stocks-bear-market-9930783\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bear market is a financial market phase marked by prolonged price declines, typically 20% or more, often signaling investor pessimism and economic slowdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}