Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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A fall of 20% or more from the peak.
Mostly the multiple contracting as confidence drains away, rather than earnings collapsing. On the long-run Indian record a decline of this size has arrived every few years.
Measures of how many individual stocks are participating in a move, as distinct from what the index level is doing.
India in 2018 is the clean domestic example: the NIFTY at new highs while most listed stocks were in their own bear market. It tells you what kind of market you are in, not what to do on Tuesday.