holding pattern
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That’s the message retail investors are sending as fund flow data for September indicates a strong preference developing for exchange-traded funds focused on longer-duration Treasury bonds, while the equity market remains in a holding pattern.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
But as one Stormont source put it recently: "You can't leak anything if there's nothing to leak. This is an executive in a holding pattern."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and his seemingly supernatural competence at both city management and marketing, has laid a blueprint for kitchen-table progressives looking to bust out of the Trump-era holding pattern.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Many of the software startups that launched in the early 2010s, Medina said, aren’t growing fast enough to elicit any real interest from public-market investors, putting them in a holding pattern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The school week is like a holding pattern.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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