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dead cat bounce
Financial market jargon for when the market recovers sharply from a steep fall but the rebound is due more to technical factors, like short-covering, than fundamentals (a dead cat will "bounce" if dropped from a high place). Later the market resumes its downward trend. The derivation of the term is said by some to have come from aFinancial Times story in 1985 in which a broker interviewed about a modest recovery in the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur stock markets described the rise as "dead cat...
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