Having said that, we should be due for a dead cat bounce and one is probably imminent.

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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.

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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.

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Have we had the Apple dead cat bounce?

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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.

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Is this a true recovery or a dead-cat bounce?

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