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dead-cat bounce investment & finance definition

  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 don’t expect a stock’s upward price movement to last.

See dead-cat bounce in Wall Street Words

A sharp and likely temporary rise in the market price of a stock following an extensive decline.

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