In terms of the stock market, what is the opposite of a bear?
Bull (stock market speculator) and its assets. The speculator who takes a directly opposite view to the bull is the bear, who speculates on a stock decreasing in value, having sold short. A bull market is a period during which stock market prices rise over a sustained period, therefore to the advantage of bulls. An early mention of the terms bull and bear appears in the 1769 edition of Thomas Mortimer's "Every Man his own Broker", published in London, as follows, relating to speculators operating in Jonathan's Coffee-House in Exchange Alley (the original London proto-Stock Exchange): This refers to the former practice of stock-brokers,
1973–74 stock market crash level until May 1987 (only a few months before the Black Monday crash), whilst the United States didn't see the same level in real terms until August 1993, over twenty years after the 1973–74 crash began. The Hong Kong TVB series "The Greed of Man" storyline revolves around the market crash. 1973–74 stock market crash The 1973–74 stock market crash caused a bear market between January 1973 and December 1974. Affecting all the major stock markets in the world, particularly the United Kingdom, it was one of the worst stock market downturns in modern history. The crash came after the