Bull and bear market

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🗓️ 29 September 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Learn what you say when share prices rise and when they fall. We help you to understand financial terms

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
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0:06.0	The English We Speak
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0:11.0	dot com. Hello, this is the English we speak with me Lee and Neil.
0:18.0	Yeah.
0:19.0	Neil.
0:20.0	Yeah.
0:22.0	Yes. Oh hi yeah Neil? Oh, yes.
0:23.0	Oh, hi, yeah, hi, Lee, everyone.
0:26.0	What's taking all your attention?
0:29.0	You can't stop looking at your smartphone.
0:32.0	Ah, Lee, it's the stock exchange.
0:35.0	I'm waiting to see if my shares have gone up.
0:38.0	I want to be rich.
0:39.0	Oh, yeah.
0:41.0	But you have to remember that the stock market can be very volatile.
0:45.0	It means the value of shares can go down as well as up.
0:49.0	How do you know if the market is good for investors?
0:53.0	Well, experts say it's a bull market when the price of shares on the stock market is rising.
0:59.4	And they say it's a bare market when the price of shares on the stock market is falling.
1:05.0	So a bull market is on the up and the bear market is when the price of shares is going down.
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