On the other hand, bear markets also tend to coincide with rising interest rates whereas now, for all his tough talk, Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, shows little inclination to put rates up.
On the first morning back in work after Easter, I was in the left hand lane as usual to bear left down towards the Senedd, when the car in the right hand lane comprehensively cut me up.
On the other hand, past bear markets send a mixed message about whether one is likely now.
My bear was already second-hand when he was given to me in 1945.
In one home, stripped to its blue tile, hand-scrawled ledgers bear large sums recording building costs and other unspecified transactions.
Born last December, the bear ignited a heated debate about hand-rearing after his mother rejected him and he was brought up and bottle-fed by Mr Doerflein.
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Sandor Foldi, of Bury St Edmunds, was once dragged across the stage of Olympia by a runaway bear when he worked as a circus hand.
Knut the polar bear, who became world famous after he was hand-reared by keepers after his mother rejected him, has died at the age of four.
The deal that Germany has seemed to reject out of hand may already be too harsh for Greeks to bear.
Men on the other hand are expected to ignore their families' needs and bear the consequences.
But Johnson said the decision to hand the captaincy to the experienced Tindall was not influenced by the bear-pit atmosphere expected at the world-renowned Millennium Stadium.
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This happens mainly for accounting reasons: if the first call centre were to hand over all the information to the second one, it would bear the main cost of the call and make the second look more efficient.
On the other hand, strong equity market rallies frequently occur in the midst of a prolonged bear market environment, such as we have experienced since 2000.
Knut was hand-reared by zoo keepers after being rejected by his mother, a former circus bear from the former East Germany.
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