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back up definition - finance
A term used in the fixed-income market when prices fall and yields rise. Another use for this term occurs when an investor moves funds from a five-year note and puts them into a two-year note. This term is also used to refer to a market that reverses an upward trend and backs up.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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