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Price momentum

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Price Momentum

The performance of a stock relative to its industry or the performance of an industry relative to the market as a whole. A stock (or industry) that outperforms its industry (or market) for a given period of time is seen as a bullish sign for that stock (or industry). The concept is also called relative strength.
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Secondly, 'adverse selection', where knowledge of a position in a dark pool is used by a counterparty to more effectively trade natural price momentum, e.g.
Nationwide predicts an increase in the number of homes for sale will lead to a "gradual flattening out of the upward price momentum - and this is indeed what the three-month trend in April shows".
RICS UK housing market spokesperson Jeremy Leaf said: "The gap between supply and demand has not sufficiently narrowed enough to affect house price momentum. The slower pace of house price rises and the slight shortening of buyer enquiries can be attributed to a seasonal adjustment with the housing market pulling down its shutters for Christmas."
"Price momentum could slow in the short term" for gold but "we believe the macro environment could turn more favorable for gold as inflation concerns kick in and the dollar continues to weaken," Barclays Capital analysts said.
The bank also warned that prices for properties in the city are set to rise above their highest levels set last year because of the price momentum and strong liquidity.
The conclusions are not affected when the researchers control for size, book-to-market, post-earnings-announcement drift, leverage, price momentum, and price reversals.
"Price momentum in the Pacific and New England states, in particular, has pulled back."
These factors include beta, book-to-market, market capitalization, and price momentum. For example, the prediction emanating from a rational asset-pricing model such as the CAPM is that beta is priced by the market.
Expects the price momentum generated in the first-half to drive substantial earnings growth in the second-half, resulting in a full-year adjusted EBIT outlook of $925M-$975M.
The market is likely to remain choppy over the next couple of weeks as a tug-of-war from short-term negative price momentum meets long-term fundamentals, said Jeff Schulze, investment strategist at ClearBridge Investments in New York.
Periods of industry consolidation tend to be supportive of strong share price momentum within the affected sector.
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