market correction

market correction definition - finance
In technical analysis, a reversal in the direction of prices following a period of sustained price movement. The term often is used informally to indicate that the market or the price of a stock or commodity has changed directions.

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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