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melt-up

melt-up noun: a dramatic and rapid improvement.

Noun

melt-up (plural melt-ups)

  1. A dramatic and rapid improvement.
    • It was a market melt-up during which our conservative assets had melted up less.2018 July 6, Daniel Peris, Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors and How You Can Bring Common Sense to Your Portfolio, McGraw Hil, →ISBN, page 187
    • But for currency carry trades, there are two sides to a currency exchange rate, and if a carry crash means a crash of carry recipient currencies, it is also likely to mean a “melt-up” in the value of the funding currency.[2019 December 13, Tim Lee, Jamie Lee, Kevin Coldiron, The Rise of Carry: The Dangerous Consequences of Volatility Suppression and the New Financial Order of Decaying Growth and Recurring Crisis...
    Antonyms:
    meltdown

Examples of melt-up in a sentence

  • If the active portfolio is under-risked relative to its benchmark, by how much could it underperform in a market rally (“melt-up”) event?[2020 November 10, Sebastian Page, Beyond Diversification: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Asset Allocation, McGraw Hill, →ISBN...
  • After all, who ever heard of a sudden melt-up in stock prices?[2021 January 19, Anthony Crescenzi, The Strategic Bond Investor, Third Edition: Strategic Tools to Unlock the Power of the Bond Market...
  • This was the first time I can remember the term “melt-up” being used by the press.[2022 April 12, Jim Cullen, “30: Melt-up Markets”, in The Case for Long-Term Value Investing: A Guide to the Data and Strategies that Drive...

Antonyms of melt-up

Forms of melt-up

pluralmelt-ups

Origin of melt-up

An inversion of meltdown.

Questions about melt-up

What does melt-up mean?
Melt-up means a dramatic and rapid improvement.
How do you use melt-up in a sentence?
If the active portfolio is under-risked relative to its benchmark, by how much could it underperform in a market rally (“melt-up”) event?
What part of speech is melt-up?
Melt-up is a noun.
What is the plural of melt-up?
The plural of melt-up is melt-ups.

Words near melt-up in the dictionary

  1. melt sandwich
  2. melt sandwiches
  3. melt someone's butter
  4. melt up
  5. melt-sick
  6. melt-up
  7. melt-ups
  8. meltabilities
  9. meltability
  10. meltable
  11. meltage

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