market cycle
Boom-bust pattern
Market cycle refers to the recurring pattern of expansion and contraction in financial markets or economies.
Markets tend to move through phases—growth, peak, decline, and trough—before the pattern repeats.
Investors track market cycles to time buying and selling: We're late in the market cycle, so I'm moving to safer assets.
The term applies to stock markets, real estate, commodities, and broader economic activity.
- boomLoud deep sound
- bustFailure or sculpture
- bullSteer before castration
- bearLarge furry omnivore
- peakUtmost height attained
smart money · trough · correction · rally · irrational exuberance · crash · dead cat bounce · downturn · upturn · recession · recovery · soft landing · expansion · bull run · contraction · bubble · swing · trend
- economyGDP, money, inflation, inflation rate, GNP
- cyclescircle of life, period, rhythms, oscillations, full circle
- investingstocks, stock, bonds, investing, investor
- market movementsup, down, rising, falling, increase
market cyclesteady state
Unchanging system condition
steady growth · market stability · linear growth · equilibrium · price stability
market, cycle, markets, marketed, marketing, marketer, marketers, marketplace, marketable