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Weekend Effect

A common occurrence in which stock prices tend to be negative Friday through Monday.

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Simply put, this is the tendency of stock prices to fall over the weekend.

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See also: January Effect, Monday Effect, October Effect

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weekend effect

The tendency of securities to perform better on Fridays than on Mondays. Some technical analysts contend the weekend effect is primarily the result of the Monday auctions of U.S. Treasury securities.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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