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fall·ing knife

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  1. falling knifenoun

    A stock whose price has dropped rapidly.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of falling knife in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of falling knife in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of falling knife in a Sentence

  1. Joseph Quinlan:

    Energy is the undervalued sector of the market, but trying to call the bottom of oil prices is like trying to catch a falling knife. There's value to be had, but also might be some more pain along the way.

  2. David Kotok:

    I don't want to catch a falling knife.

  3. Joel Kulina:

    A lot of the fast-money types had recently been trying to catch a falling knife, and some of these stocks started to look OK. But today looks like a complete capitulation, where guys can’t stomach the pain of regulatory uncertainty. People have just given up.

  4. Bonnie Baha:

    Right now, to step into this, you'd be catching a falling knife, with oil at $40 a barrel, these people can't make it ... At some point there are going to be some bargains out there, but we're not stepping into that now.

  5. Bob Doll:

    The fundamentals are still so bad that I'm not tempted a whole lot. I'm still at the point where I would rather own the beneficiary of the energy price decline than try to catch a falling knife.

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