crab market

English

Etymology

From the movement of a crab, which appears to move sideways and seems to be going neither forward (a bull market, in this metaphor) or backward (a bear market).

Noun

crab market (plural crab markets)

  1. (finance, rare) A market trend where a stock keeps fluctuating around the same price over a longer period of time, neither entering a bull market nor a bear market
    Coordinate terms: bear market, bull market
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