Having said that, we should be due for a dead cat bounce and one is probably imminent.
We tried 'em with a dead cat that we found on the road, but they didn't want it.
As well as the shoes, there were toys and hats, all from the 19th Century, and even a dead cat.
The question now is, was that simply a dead cat bounce or can we start a new uptrend of sorts?
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That rebound was widely dismissed as a "dead-cat bounce, " a graphic trader's term that refers to the notion that even a dead cat will bounce a little if it falls far enough.
Take the 70-employee furniture wholesaler in California that recently got threatened with a suit when a retail customer who purchased one of the company's wine racks claimed that her son found a dead cat in the shipping container and suffered psychological trauma.
Could this be a turning point for the metals, or just a dead-cat bounce?
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But this is no more than the equivalentof a dead-cat bounce.
It was part of a thought experiment intended to illustrate the bizarre nature of the quantum world, in which particles can persist in two states at once and, as a consequence, a cat can be both dead and alive.
The traders are going to like the look of that Microsoft dead cat bounce, but for investors it is not a pretty thought to imagine that Apple is on its way back to normality.
Until Dendreon hears from the agency, Provenge is a lot like Schrodinger's cat: It's both alive and dead at the same time.
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