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This 7 page paper investigates stock market indices such as the Dow Jones and the way history is littered with instances of volatility in the capital markets. The author discusses what impact economic change has on the capital markets with reference to Bull and Bears, and considers whether they continue to provide good investment opportunities. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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not means consistent, there are periods of volatility litters throughout stock market history, where stock markets are rising and/or falling rapidly. Bull and bear markets have been seen on
numerous occasions, a bear market is a market losing its value and where shares are expected to fall, a bull market is the opposite, where there are gains and the
market is climbing (Vaitilingam, 2001). The current credit crunch has seen a major decline in the value of the stock market, creating a bear market, where share have fallen and
were expected to fall. The capital markets are interdependent with the economy, impacting on, and impacted by the general economy. This link between the economy and the capital
markets can be seen by looking at some of periods of volatility. For example, there is a strong bear market between 1906 and 1920, and then there is a
bull market between 1920 and 1929. In 1929 the great depression started which continued into the 1930s. During this time there was a massive fall in the Dow Jones Industrial
Average (DJI) value falling by 89% by 1932. This fall was part of a longer economic cycle, with growth then taking place, but the recovery would be long for those
that still had money in the stock market during the crash. It would be 1956 before the same level of value, in real terms, would be gianed. An investor entering
the market in 1945 may have seen growth, but the investor that entered the market in 1929 would only just see the investment draw even. This volatility can be seen
by looking at figure 1, which is the value of the Dow Jones between 1890 and 200, valued at constant 1998 dollars Figure 1 The Dow Jones Industrial Average 1890
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