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A bull market is described as a market where there is increasing confidence among investors, which causes the market to steadily increase over an extended period of time. Investors keep on investing in the market, confident in future capital gains. An example of a bull market was when India's Bombay Stock Exchange Index, SENSEX, jumped from 2,900 points to 21,000 points from April 2003 to January 2008.
A bull market is opposite of a bear market.
The picture to the right is a symbolic statue of a bull outside of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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