rubber band

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Its price is now over 100% above its 200-day moving average, which means the “proverbial rubber band is extremely stretched,” he said.

From MarketWatch

Its price is now over 100% above its 200-day moving average, which means the “proverbial rubber band is extremely stretched,” he said.

From MarketWatch

"Think of it like a rubber band being pulled," Judah Cohen, a climate dynamics scientist at MIT, told AFP.

From Barron's

At the same time, it behaves elastically, meaning it can bend and partially return to its original shape, similar to a rubber band.

From Science Daily

“It’s like the rubber band got really stretched in one direction,” as the U.S. had long beaten emerging-market equities, he said.

From MarketWatch