A Market Correction is a rapid change in the nominal price of a commodity, after a barrier to free trade has been removed and the free market establishes a new equilibrium price.
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market correction — A relatively short term drop in stock market prices, generally viewed as bringing overpriced stocks back to a level closer to companies actual values. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * market correction UK US noun [C] (also stock market… … Financial and business terms
United States housing market correction — A United States housing market correction is a market correction or bubble bursting of a United States housing bubble; the most recent one started in 2005.A real estate bubble is a type of economic bubble that occurs periodically in local or… … Wikipedia
Market trends — In investing, financial markets are commonly believed to have market trends [ [http://www.investorwords.com/5067/trend.html Investorswords.com] , retrieved 30 May 2007.] that can be classified as primary trends, secondary trends (short term), and … Wikipedia
correction — Reverse movement, usually downward, in the price of an individual stock, bond, commodity, or index. If prices have been rising on the market as a whole, and then fall dramatically, this is known as a correction within an upward trend. Antithesis… … Financial and business terms
Market trend — Statues of the two symbolic beasts of finance, the bear and the bull, in front of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. A market trend is a putative tendency of a financial market to move in a particular direction over time.[1] These trends are… … Wikipedia
Correction — may refer to: An euphemism for punishment Correction (newspaper), the posting of a notice of a mistake in a past issue of a newspaper Correction (stock market), in financial markets, a short term price decline Correction (novel), a 1975 novel by… … Wikipedia
correction — cor·rec·tion n 1: a decline in market price or business activity following and counteracting a rise 2: the treatment and rehabilitation of offenders through a program involving penal custody, parole, and probation often used in pl.… … Law dictionary
correction — [kə rek′shən] n. [ME correccion < OFr correction < L correctio] 1. a correcting or being corrected 2. a change that corrects a mistake; change from wrong to right, or from abnormal to normal; emendation; rectification 3. the amount of… … English World dictionary
correction — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ minor, small ▪ necessary ▪ Make any necessary corrections before the text is printed. ▪ error, spelling ▪ … Collocations dictionary
correction */ — UK [kəˈrekʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms correction : singular correction plural corrections 1) [countable] a change that makes something correct or accurate spelling corrections make a correction: I ve made a few small corrections in your essay.… … English dictionary
