Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• THREE STEPS AND A STUMBLE RULE
  
  A rule predicting that stock and bond prices will fall following three increases in the discount rate by the Federal Reserve. This is a result of increased costs of borrowing for companies and the increased attractiveness of money market funds and CDs over stocks and bonds as a result of the higher interest rates.
  
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