Cyclical bull markets returned the Dow to 1000 numerous times, but each time a cyclical bear market took back the gains.
Dance also plays a central role in formal ceremonies such as "Iyomante, " in which participants send the deity embodied in a bear they have eaten back to heaven by mimicking the movements of a living bear.
Having demolished the cake, the bear turns and slips back into the thick foliage.
It was rumored that, like an ant, her back could bear the burden of something several times her body weight.
Our ratings for domestic stock funds look at long-term performance over four bull and bear market cycles stretching back 12 years.
Another bear lay in the back of a pickup truck in the driveway and four others rested on the garage floor.
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The first cyclical bull market since the secular bear market began, carried the market back up to its peak of 2000 before the 2007-2009 cyclical bear market took over.
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Gasoline became one dollar too expensive for US consumers to bear in an election year back in March.
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Each was followed by another cyclical bear market that took the market back down to its lows.
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The shaky U.S. economy has turned oil traders skittish, and Wall Street rallied out of bear territory Thursday as crude crossed back below a symbolic threshold.
But what market always comes back, the market that investors were invested in and have been waiting to come back to recover their bear market losses?
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The agreement in principle resolves two investigations into the sale of mortgage-back securities by JPMorgan and Bear Stearns, the financial institution that JPMorgan acquired in 2008.
If the bear market continues, hostile deals could come back into fashion.
That chain has been broken by MF (it really broke back in 2008 with Lehman, Bear Stearns, and AIG, but trillions of dollars temporarily delayed its continuing collapse).
In other words, they are eager to give back to the church, to perhaps bear some of the load.
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Prices began to rise, continued to rise for about two, three months and then a major bear market kicked in, prices did not get back to the thousand level for ten years.
After gorging on bear meat, the expedition's scientists bring back evidence that helps prove the controversial theory of continental drift, which gives rise in due course to the science of plate tectonics, which explains why it was that Krakatoa blew itself up--and will do so again, in eons hence.
Unfortunately, over the very long-term the market cycles back and forth between secular bull markets and secular bear markets on a quite regular basis.
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And once they get out, usually due to painful losses, they tend to stay away from another relationship with the market for very long periods, like those who have been on the sidelines since the big bear market plunge of 2008 and early last year, not enticed back in for even part of the new bull market that began early last year.
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The second interesting observation is that 7 out of 8 of the cyclical bull markets within the long term trend lasted for several years, and did not end until the market was back to its level achieved at the peak when the secular bear began.
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"While we have a good success rate to get patients to survive and back to normal, almost none of them go on to bear children, " said Dr. Thomas Fishbein, Executive Director at the Georgetown Transplant Institute, who was not part of Al Ansari's medical team.
The Old Bear is betrayed by his own sworn brothers, stabbed quite literally in the back.
Voters already back Labour's view that the economy is too fragile to bear such austerity, according to opinion polls.
Looking back over a full investment cycle, munis often act defensively in bear markets, or when risk is out of favor.
The top lot will be Shepard's drawing for A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh, " "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin" (1926).
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