backdrop
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“We’re seeing strength, both home and abroad, and among large and small companies. That is typically a backdrop for upward-trending equity prices.”
From MarketWatch • May 31, 2026
Set against the backdrop of 1980s excess and large country estates, the series tells the story of the rivalry between the aristocratic Rupert Campbell-Black and TV executive Lord Tony Baddingham.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
“With markets still facing geopolitical uncertainty and a more cautious rates backdrop, pressure on non-yielding assets such as gold has remained firmly in place,” The Revacy Fund’s Zaheer Anwari says in an email.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Against this backdrop, the upgraded revenue guidance looks less like a stretch and more like a sign of what’s to come.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Perhaps it was the backdrop: Buck’s Peak was theirs and it camouflaged them, so that when I saw them there, surrounded by the loud, sharp relics of my childhood, the setting seemed to absorb them.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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