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inversely

[in-vurs-lee] / ɪnˈvɜrs li /


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Yields on short-term Treasury notes, which move inversely to prices, marked their sharpest one-day rise in three months, reaching their highest closing level since early last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

Stocks and Treasury bonds were rallying on Wednesday, with bond yields — which move inversely to prices — moving lower as oil prices retreated.

From MarketWatch May 6, 2026

Yields and prices of debt move inversely to each other.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 2026

To put the researchers’ argument another way, as a coincident indicator, the ratio is inversely correlated with the stock market.

From MarketWatch Apr. 17, 2026

It was Newton who realized that the pull of any two objects is, to quote Feynman again, "proportional to the mass of each and varies inversely as the square of the distance between them."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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