parabolic

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Chip stocks have pulled back from a parabolic rally, and there are technical and historical reasons for investors to worry that a deeper selloff in the sector will hurt the broader stock market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Jonathan Krinsky, a market technician at BTIG, urged investors to approach Avis with caution, since the parabolic move higher of its shares could swiftly and painfully reverse.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

As first-quarter earnings loom “amidst parabolic AI revenue inflections at foundational model leaders,” Citi Research analysts expect the concerns around the durability of business models for software-as-a-service companies to intensify in the months ahead.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

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

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