parabolic

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And one thing we’ve learned about commodity markets is that it doesn’t take much speculative money to make them go parabolic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

“That is why you’re seeing these parabolic moves,” he added.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

Front-month gold futures continued their parabolic move toward $5,000 a troy ounce, closing Friday at $4,976.20.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

The stock market was relatively calm in the weeks leading up to its late-October high, in contrast to the parabolic increase that you’d expect if tops were the opposite of bottoms.

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

Nevertheless, his idealized parabolic trajectory in a vacuum was an essential precondition for the much more sophisticated analysis by Robins and Euler of actual trajectories.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton