flatline

flatline definition - finance
A market that returns to where it opened, having neither a gain nor a loss. A chart of the market shows a line that looks flat. The term is used more frequently on financial television programs than in news articles or magazines.

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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