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Influctuate	slimorish2003	02/19/07
I want to say a word to describe the going up and the sudden going down of prices of the stock market. Is it "influctuate" because I can't find it in the dictionary. I don't know if it is a spelling error. I want to say something like "The market influctuates."
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Jim.McGinness		02/19/07
I agree with Rich, "fluctuate" seems to be the word you are reaching for, although it is neutral as to the direction of change. If a sufficiently large downward movement in prices occurs, we are likely to label that a "crash". Something milder might be labeled a "downturn". A large upward movement may be labeled a "surge" while a temporary sharp fluctuation in which the price first increases then decreases to essentially the same level as it started would be labeled a "spike". These are all terms that even a layperson would understand in talking about market behavior. There are other market watchers, sometimes called either "technical analysts" or "chartists" who have a whole zoo of market behaviors that they recognize and have names for.

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