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noun
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
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, finance
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noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see crab, market.
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History
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).
