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Narrow market

Narrow market

An inactive market, which displays large fluctuations in prices due to a low volume of trading.
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Thin Market

A market for a security with few transactions. Because of the low trading volume, a single, large order to buy or sell the security can affect the price significantly. It is also called a narrow market. See also: Inactive Security, Broad Market.
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This would help narrow market spreads (the difference between the ask price and the bid price) and ensure a more precise market valuation of the instruments.
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Findings from narrow market segments--such as listed Fortune 500 companies in the United States--that show improved bottom-line performance of companies empowering women strongly across various levels of decision-making are difficult to extrapolate to international markets.
They have minimal synergies with the core drainage products business due to limited customer overlap, separate manufacturing facilities and a different manufacturing process, notes Forterra, which characterizes pressure pipe as a "narrow market segment with significant competition and limited near-term catalysts for improvement in demand."
yes it's a narrow market, but it is steadily moving up."
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