downtrend

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Recent Examples of downtrend Economic activity in April was widely expected to show a downtrend, in part thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump’s global trade war. Ganesh Rao,chloe Taylor, CNBC, 23 May 2025 The daily price chart for the Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund is here: The price has moved upward from the April lows but is unable to cross above the downtrend line that connects the late November 2024 high with the early March 2025 high. John Navin, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025 If the chart is moving higher growth stocks are out performing value stocks, and vice versa in the case of a downtrend. Todd Gordon, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025 What had been hot stocks are now in the cold as ice territory as the price charts show serious downtrends for each. John Navin, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for downtrend
Recent Examples of Synonyms for downtrend
Noun
  • There are several reasons why markets in the state are experiencing such a downturn.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • This spring, Russia’s manufacturing sector, an industry that also includes defense enterprises, suffered its steepest downturn in close to three years, dropping 2 points from February to March.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • That slump has intensified competition among producers, posing a challenge for the industry, as well as for local governments, which have promoting mineral development as a way of boosting the Southeast Asia’s largest economy.
    Alfred Cang, Fortune, 19 June 2025
  • Baseballs’ best hitter is now in a 2-for-20, 13-strikeout slump.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • China faces economy-wide deflation, new data suggested, exacerbated by a bruising price war in the automotive industry.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 27 June 2025
  • Separately, deflation in the country’s factory-gate or producer prices deepened, falling 3.3% from a year earlier in May, marking the steepest decline since July 2023 and a sharper drop compared with analysts’ estimates of a 3.2% fall, according to LSEG data.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • San Diego’s 2025 homeless count showed a decrease to 9,905 people, down from over 10,600 in 2024.
    Mahdi E Diab, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • With ominous luxury reports touting a 25 percent decrease in sales for some of the top names in fashion, there is a bright spot in the sector: India.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Snow White’s opening weekend box office projections have been on a downslide for the past month.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Tim Lammers Snow White’s opening weekend projection has been on the downslide for about a month.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Our hero manages to escape the kitty’s onslaught, but his brush with death doesn’t arrest the relentless shrinkage.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 June 2025
  • In May, the large shrinkage in the labor force kept the U3 Unemployment Rate the same as April’s 4.2% rate.
    Robert Barone, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • After noticing a global gap in effective and trusted protection when faced with financial diminution, the company honed in on the product, refining it to meet the needs of employees worldwide.
    Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
  • What’s really harmful, in my estimation, is the uncertainty of it all and the diminution of trust our strongest allies will have in the United States for years to come.
    Ken Roberts, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The most dramatic reduction came for the Honda CR-V, as the vehicle’s hood, mirrors and A-pillars all obstructed a greater portion of the driver’s view over time.
    Tanya Mohn, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • The move could result in layoffs and program reductions across several of its schools, the university said in an announcement.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 28 June 2025

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“Downtrend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downtrend. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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