Meaning of "Tapering"
This refers to the process by which a central bank, during an economic recovery, gradually reduces the scale of accommodative monetary policies such as quantitative easing (by tightening liquidity) to transition into a period of monetary tightening.
"With the central bank beginning tapering this week, the market is once again focusing on the possibility of interest rate hikes."
Related slang words
뚠뚠This phrase comes from the KakaoTV variety show *Ants Are Still Chugging Along Today* and refers to the act of steadily moving forward and continuing to take action and make investments, just as ants diligently march on.Retail investorsA term referring to domestic retail investors who actively bought domestic stocks to defend the market and withstand falling stock prices during the market crash caused by COVID-19, in the face of massive selling by foreign investorsLate HarvestThe act of buying a stock that has already surged in price after the fact, or making additional purchases of a stock one already owns in order to lower the average purchase priceAverage unit priceThis value represents the average entry price of assets purchased over multiple transactions; it refers to the average purchase price (average unit price), calculated by dividing the total purchase amount by the total purchase quantity.Ex-dividend dateThis refers to the phenomenon where, after the record date for dividends has passed and shareholders lose their entitlement to dividends, the stock price adjusts in the short term by an amount equivalent to the dividend payout.FintechIt is an industry or service model that combines finance and technology to provide digital financial services such as mobile payments, money transfers, and asset management.ReverseA phenomenon in cryptocurrency trading where domestic prices are abnormally lower than overseas prices, meaning that domestic coin prices are trading at a discount compared to those on overseas exchanges.Money TreeThis is a nickname used to describe individuals (or their strategies) who generate profits by investing in disruptive innovation companies, likening them to entities that attach "money" to a "tree" to make money and help it grow.