bearish

From bear + -ish.

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bearish (comparative more bearish, superlative most bearish)

1. Resembling or likened to a bear, typically in being rough, surly, or clumsy.
2. (stock market, of the price of financial instruments) Characterized by or expecting falling prices.
   • 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], →ISSN:

     At the start of the year, Bridgewater turned bearish on U.S. bonds and built up a short position.

3. (by extension) Pessimistic about the future.
   • 2014, Barton Biggs, Biggs on Finance, Economics, and the Stock Market: Barton's Market Chronicles from the Morgan Stanley Years‎^[2], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     The Germans were downcast because of Eastern Europe and Helmut Schmidt's decline, the Arabs were depressed because of oil and Iraq, the French were bearish because of their government; only the British seemed a little upbeat, but that was before the Falkland Islands incident.

• (antonym(s) of “stock market”): bullish

• Abshier, Abshire, Berisha, bareish