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Old timers say that the Indian markets suffer a bad year quite frequently. But two bad years in succession occur very rarely, and three successive bad years almost never. In terms of statistics, a bear market lasting 36 months (or more) has occurred twice.
Once was in the late 1980s, when V P Singh managed finances, first as finance minister in Rajiv Gandhi
First Published: Dec 29 2001 | 12:00 AM IST