pullback

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The Philippine central bank is widely expected to deliver a rate hike on Thursday as inflation remains uncomfortably strong despite a pullback in May.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

While goods drove most of May’s increases, the index that tracks services still rose 0.3% month over month in May, a pullback from the 0.7% gain in April.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

The “outsized pullback in shares” from those worries make for “a more interesting setup emerging as once-lofty optical premiums begin to look more palatable to investors,” Chatterjee said in his Thursday note.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Altmann said he’s looking for a total pullback by the S&P 500 of around 6% or 7% — which he sees as possibly halfway done already due to recent drops.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

I've had a hard pullback, but all is not lost.

From Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake by Alger, Horatio