Morning Briefing: Can the economy ward off the bear market?
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February13, 2018
Reuters News Now
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Faith in the economyis reason to think this current stock market correction is unlikely to deepen into a full-blown bear market. That is the read of stock market strategists and other market watchers looking at past pullbacks of at least 10 percent on the S&P 500 and whether the benchmark index is likely to extend its decline to 20 percent, or bear market territory.
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