momentum
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Fading investor momentum has left quant funds as the stock market’s main support, and that leaves a year-end rally highly dependent on oil prices, according to Barclays.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
A month ago, however, uppermost among Tyler’s concerns were widening credit spreads, Fed uncertainty, heavy positioning, seasonality concerns and a worry about the AI momentum trade unwinding.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
It said its updated outlook reflected strong demand in the fourth quarter for its vacation portfolio, combined with improved booking momentum in its airline segment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Gas can follow those magnetic field lines outward, removing both material and angular momentum from the disk.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
The stone sailed across the surface of the water, but the momentum of the pitch threw Wash off balance, and he tumbled into the river.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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The angular momenta tied to its lattice vibrations combined in a way that produced a new rotation moving at twice the frequency but in the opposite direction.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
But it rides on a brilliantly tuned air suspension with adaptive dampers to tie down rebellious momenta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Physicists once assumed that if you inverted all the particles’ positions—swapping left and right, up and down, forward and back—and reverse all their momenta, the universe should work just the same.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 5, 2021
Various properties of the S-matrix were known—notably analyticity with respect to values of particle momenta, and so-called crossing symmetry associated with exchanging particles and antiparticles.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2019
The proof of this fundamental proposition rests entirely on the following momenta of argument.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
"Differing momentums appear at different positions on the detector. Put more simply, the different directions in which the electrons move in a layer are represented by corresponding dots on the detector," said Elmers.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
He says he rarely questions the root of his attraction to cars, the solitary driver and the twin momentums of fate and purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
But after their six years together individual momentums are forcing a group hiatus.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2012
Although clocking at 40 minutes, you will find just seven post-rock songs that go from slow psychedelic notes to big momentums of distortion, noise and epic choruses.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2011
"They are momentums of the Art Loan Imposition."
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
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