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melt-up en · NOUN

Etymology

An inversion of meltdown.

Meanings

1. A dramatic and rapid improvement.
   • This was the first time I can remember the term “melt-up” being used by the press. Stocks were extremely cheap coming out of the double-dip recession of the early 1980s, producing a market that was going up every day. [2022 April 12, Jim Cullen, “30: Melt-up Markets”, in The Case for Long-Term Value Investing: A Guide to the Data and Strategies that Drive Stock Market Success, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 204:
   • It was a market melt-up during which our conservative assets had melted up less. 2018 July 6, Daniel Peris, Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors and How You Can Bring Common Sense to Your Portfolio, McGraw Hil, →ISBN, page 187:
   • If the active portfolio is under-risked relative to its benchmark, by how much could it underperform in a market rally (“melt-up”) event? [2020 November 10, Sebastian Page, Beyond Diversification: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Asset Allocation, McGraw Hill, →ISBN, page 158:
   • But for currency carry trades, there are two sides to a currency exchange rate, and if a carry crash means a crash of carry recipient currencies, it is also likely to mean a “melt-up” in the value of the funding currency. [2019 December 13, Tim Lee, Jamie Lee, Kevin Coldiron, The Rise of Carry: The Dangerous Consequences of Volatility Suppression and the New Financial Order of Decaying Growth and Recurring Crisis, McGraw Hill, →ISBN, page 23:
   • After all, who ever heard of a sudden melt-up in stock prices? [2021 January 19, Anthony Crescenzi, The Strategic Bond Investor, Third Edition: Strategic Tools to Unlock the Power of the Bond Market, McGraw Hill, →ISBN, page 337:

Forms

Antonyms

meltdown

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