noun General Slang

Tape bomb

· noun · finance

An out-of-nowhere headline that jolts the market mid-session.

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A surprise news headline that hits the wires and immediately jerks prices around. Named after the old ticker tape, the term survived into the Bloomberg era to describe any unscheduled, market-moving story, a leaked memo, a sudden resignation, a geopolitical flash.

“We were grinding sideways and then a tape bomb on tariffs hit and the S&P dropped 30 handles.”
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Tape bomb In A Sentence

We were grinding sideways and then a tape bomb on tariffs hit and the S&P dropped 30 handles.

Origin & Usage

Variants tape-bomb

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