1.   Although sagging year-end stock prices have tamed the biotech bull market, industry boosters are hopeful that January will ring in a new round of public financings.

2.   Although stock prices do not directly affect the economy, most economists believe that a bull market makes people feel wealthier and encourages them to spend more.

3.   American companies are reporting a surge in profits, giving investors reason to hope that the aging bull market may have more life left.

4.   American investors do not think the piling on of bad news has yet knocked the legs out from under the bull market.

5.   Amid the strongest bull market in history, the fund was done in by poor planning and lackluster marketing.

6.   Analysts said investors are expected to be extremely nervous today amid fears that the long-running bull market in stocks may be ending.

7.   Analysts said investors were in a frenzy to own stocks, but some cautioned that the bull market could be entering a dubious speculative phase.

8.   Analysts said the price was a fair one, since both companies are exchanging shares with values inflated by a six-year bull market for banks.

9.   Analysts said the price was fair because both companies are exchanging shares with values inflated by a six-year bull market for banks.

10.   An account executive for a major brokerage firm lost money for Matthews in six years of managing her IRA money during a bull market.