Cyclical stocks are equities that tend to fluctuate significantly with the economic cycle, experiencing high volatility with economic upturns and downturns.
A downturn refers to the shift of an economic or stock market cycle from rising to falling, indicating a move from expansion to recession or from a bull market to a bear market.
An Economic Cycle refers to the fluctuating levels of economic activity that an economy goes through over a period of time, commonly classified into phases such as expansion, peak, contraction, and trough.
The Kondratieff Cycle, also known as the Kondratieff Wave, is a theory proposed by Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratieff in the 1920s, which suggests that the economies of the Western capitalist world experience major up-and-down 'supercycles' lasting 50 to 60 years.
In economic terms, a trough signifies the lowest point in a business cycle, marking the end of a declining phase and the start of an expansion or recovery.
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