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Break A rapid and sharp price decline. Related: Crash.
Break 1. A sudden, unexpected change in a security's price or in a market's value. While a break could indicate either upward or downward change, the connotation is negative. Especially on the futures market, a break means a steep decline in price, usually the result of a natural disaster affecting the underlying. 2. Less frequently, break refers to a discrepancy in a brokerage's accounting books. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The additional burden that is breaking the back of our emergency health care system is illegal immigrants. Begin's logic was simple, impeccable, airtight: since the PLO could not operate, survive, and flourish without the support it enjoyed from the Palestinian people, an important component in the strategy of breaking the back of the PLO was to raise the price of supporting it to above what regular Palestinian civilians could tolerate. People are really worried about this breaking the back of the consumer," said Gary Wedbush, senior vice president and head of trading at Wedbush Morgan. |
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