Someone who thinks market prices will decline. Chicago Board of Trade glossary
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An investor who believes a stock or the overall market will decline. A bear market is a prolonged period of falling stock prices, usually by 20% or more. Related: bull. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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One who believes prices will move lower. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Glossary
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A person expecting a decline in prices; someone who is bearish. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein financial glossary
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An investor who believes that prices are going to fall. Exchange Handbook Glossary
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An investor who sells a security in the hope of buying it back at a lower price, as he thinks the market will go down. A bear market is a falling market in which bears would prosper. London Stock Exchange Glossary
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someone who thinks that prices of shares, bonds, currencies, or basic goods are going to fall, and who may sell shares, bonds etc they do not actually own, expecting to be able to obtain them more cheaply later, before they have to deliver them to the buyer:
• The bears argue that after the stock market's dramatic rise, shares are bound to fall again.
• The bears took hold of the company, sending the shares 5p lower to 159p.
• A contingent of dollar bears (= people who think that the price of the dollar is going to fall ) still persists in the market.
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A market player who believes prices will fall. Bears will sell a financial instrument which they do not own and then make a profit by repurchasing it at a lower price.
► See also Bull.
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bear UK US /beər/ noun [C] FINANCE, STOCK MARKET
► someone who expects prices on a financial market to go down and sells their shares, etc. hoping to buy them back in the future at a lower price: »
The brokerage, which has been a persistent bear in recent months, switched its recommendation from sell to hold.
»The bears are driven by bad economic news from Japan, such as July's 2.4% monthly slump in industrial production.
Financial and business terms. 2012.