Etymology
Origin of inversely
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And it has only gotten harder with benchmark yields at the highest level in two dozen years, and prices inversely falling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Bond yields, which move inversely to prices, have been climbing on fears about inflation, government spending and surging corporate issuance as technology companies look to fund artificial-intelligence projects.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Bond yields move inversely to prices, rising as prices fall since higher yields are needed to attract buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
He also noted, though, from Kepler’s laws, that the ‘endeavours of receding from the Sun’ of the planets in their orbits were inversely proportional to the squares of their distances from the Sun.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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