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- From flatten + -er (Wiktionary)
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“Because the majority of debt supply is concentrated in the front end of the yield curve, traders have been selling the curve --- aka trading the "flattener".”
“With that in mind it is safe to assume traders are unwinding "flattener" strategies after the FOMC meeting indicated rates will remain low for "an extended period".”
“But we also have to think about the role parties play in this question as a flattener of interests.”
“Mr. Balestrino is betting on a "bear flattener" in the Treasurys yield curve over the course of the year.”
The Wall Street Journal: Inflation Is Dead? Long Live Long-Term Treasurys
“On a tummy flattener thing at the dollar store: "Stay Beauty Healthy!”
“So, my advice, is go for it and try to convince them this is the way of the future...the ability to collaborate online using Web 2.0 tools...it is a flattener for us all.”
“As Reuven says, the wiki technology is 'the ultimate flattener' for interaction and best practice online socialisation as well as digital literacy skill development.”
“Prudence, not compassion, stopped me from squirting in the lot: it might be that what the syringe held was a flattener for a horse but curtains for a man, and murdering was not going to help.”
“The moment it was fairly open the flattener took his polissoir, a rod of iron with a block of wood at one end, and began smoothing out the uneven sheet of glass into a flat surface.”
“The Diamond is good because it holds firmly, is a great flattener, and is especially adapted to the securing of square boxes.”
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