dead-cat bounce

dead-cat bounce definition - finance
  1. A quick, but modest, upward movement in a market that previously traded lower.
  2. A term that is used by traders to indicate that they donÂ’t expect a stockÂ’s upward price movement to last.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
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