parabolic

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Chip stocks have pulled back from a parabolic rally, and there are technical and historical reasons for investors to worry that a deeper selloff in the sector will hurt the broader stock market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

"They need a satellite receiver equipped with a large parabolic antenna," said Beskrestnov.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

“We’ve seen parabolic moves in gold and silver,” said Ron Albahary, chief investment officer at Laird Norton Wetherby.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 1, 2026

Though lower interest rates ought to provide a fillip for gold and silver, it seems investors are looking for scraps of news to unwind their recent parabolic rallies.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Nevertheless, his idealized parabolic trajectory in a vacuum was an essential precondition for the much more sophisticated analysis by Robins and Euler of actual trajectories.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton