[Wneighbor]

Can somebody tell me what “DEAD CAT BOUNCE” means?

Is that a known phrase?

[Publius]

It’s a Wall Street term. An index or stock goes down, then recovers, but the recovery doesn’t last.

[Aquamarine]

Dead cat bounce
In finance, a dead cat bounce is a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock. Derived from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height", the phrase, which originated on Wall Street, is also popularly applied to any case where a subject experiences a brief resurgence during or following a severe decline.

Wikipedia

[mairdie]

Dead Cat Bounce.

In finance, a dead cat bounce is a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock. Derived from the idea that “even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height”, the phrase, which originated on Wall Street, is also popularly applied to any case where a subject experiences a brief resurgence during or following a severe decline.

[eyedigress]

Are you kidding?

A dead cat bounce is a media thingy.

Bump the polls by producing a story so ridiculous that a dead cat being slammed on the pavement can get the same result.

[generally]

I know it from the stock market.

When the market is dropping fast, some people assume that it’s a good time to buy low, maybe that it’s reached the bottom and will start going up, but it’s really still falling. They might get lucky (or not) and make a little bit on a slight uptick, but if they don’t sell right away, they will lose as the market continues to drop.

Maybe the implication is that the DS thinks this is the bottom and things will move up for them, but really it’s just a breather on the way to more plummeting.

[Axenolith]

It’s a common term for lower high rebounds in the stock market when its in an overall decline.