underlie
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Crypto markets have their own dynamics: Prices change daily based on a concept with no particular underlying fundamentals beyond speculation.
Even if agents look different from each other, their underlying objectives often reveal patterns in timing, network movement and narrative trajectory that are unlikely to occur naturally.
From Salon
The underlying philosophy, one of Swensen’s longtime lieutenants explained on a podcast last year, was that knowing the right time to cash out is part of what endowments pay private-equity managers for.
There is a risk that elites will be enriched at the expense of the broader population, while "narratives of partnership" offered by major powers can mask underlying self-interest, he said.
From Barron's
Although Verstappen set only the seventh fastest absolute lap time of the test, Russell said Red Bull's underlying pace was "pretty scary".
From BBC
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