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During a bear market, the question of whether or not an upturn in prices is the start of new bull market or is actually a bear market rally is often one of the most debated questions among investors.
Notable bear market rallies occured in the Dow Jones index in after the 1929 stock market crash leading up to the market bottom in 1932, as well as throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Japan Nikkei stock average has been typified by a number of bear market rallies since the late 1980s while experiencing on overall downward trend.