bottoming

British

/ ˈbɒtəmɪŋ /

noun

the lowest level of foundation material for a road or other structure

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On Thursday, Tom Lee, the co-founder and head of research at Fundstrat, said financial markets were “far along” in a bottoming for software and tech stock prices, and even for virtual currencies.

From MarketWatch

The 200-week moving average has historically served as bottoming point for the stocks of companies with intact long-term growth stories facing temporary stock setbacks.

From MarketWatch

"Existing-home sales seem to be maybe bottoming and coming up. That will help."

From The Wall Street Journal

It also filled a gap from April 22, shortly after back to back bottoming bullish counterattack and engulfing candles on April 7 and 9.

From Barron's

“Favourable geopolitics, a bottoming economy and strong asset markets all help, as does the start of a structural dollar down trend,” Rory Green, economist at GlobalData TS Lombard, wrote in a recent note.

From The Wall Street Journal

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