{"id":9181,"date":"2008-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"bear-market-swipes-at-more-than-just-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/bear-market-swipes-at-more-than-just-stocks.html","title":{"rendered":"Bear market swipes at more than just stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"inside-copy\">USA Today &#8211; Technically, a bear market is when stocks fall 20% or more from their highs. But there&#8217;s a saying that a bear&#8217;s true signature is making a fool out of everyone. Based on that, we&#8217;re all laughingstocks, because there has been virtually no way to avoid this bear market&#8217;s claws.<\/div>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Following a 445-point slide to 7552 Thursday, the Dow Jones industrial average is down more than 6,600 points from its high. The broad stock market is at it lowest level in 11&frac12; years, with the Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 index off 52% from its high in October 2007 and on pace for its worst year ever, S&amp;P says. Only 13 of its 500 stocks are not down for the year, and more than 100 trade for less than $10 a share. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/markets\/2008-11-20-bear-market-losses_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today &#8211; Technically, a bear market is when stocks fall 20% or more from their highs. But there&#8217;s a saying that a bear&#8217;s true signature is making a fool out of everyone. Based on that, we&#8217;re all laughingstocks, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[279,82,56,2767,956,2905,79,3826,3111,81,2191],"class_list":["post-9181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-acsi","tag-bets","tag-blue-jays","tag-business-strategies","tag-credit-suisse","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-eaton","tag-golf-club","tag-investment-analysts","tag-newcastle","tag-participatory-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}