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📈 A long market trend 🌞 A long natural cycle
supercycle

supercycle

1 8.6
A long period of big rise or fall in a market that lasts many years
  • noun
  • /ˈsuːpərˌsaɪkəl/
  • Jargon
: superciclo
  • Understanding the supercycle of oil prices helps investors predict market trends and potential downturns.

Examples

  • My take on the commodity supercycle and stock market zeitgeist, and the new era of precious metals, uranium (just bottoming, by the way), and alternate energy.

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  • That was in the 1920s and the debt supercycle of 1971 to 2008.

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  • Sean Brodrick is a natural resources expert and editor of Global Resource Hunter, a monthly newsletter designed to help you ride the commodity supercycle -- an ongoing surge in the price of food, energy, metals, and more.

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  • The supercycle of technological advancement has transformed many industries over the past several decades.

  • Analysts believe the current supercycle in renewable energy investments could last for the next twenty years.

Synonyms

cycle
vssupercycle
707 2.8

A series of events that repeat in the same order

is specifically a long multi year trend of big expansion or contraction
business cycle
vssupercycle
  • Specialized
14 3.5

Repeated periods when an economy grows and then shrinks

is much longer and larger in scale lasting years or decades

How Long

supercycle
  • Jargon
1 8.6
business cycle
  • Specialized
14 3.5
trade cycle
  • UK
1 5.4

Surface Forms

supercycle singular
supercycles plural

Morphology

supercycle = cycle (transparent) = super + cycle

Formed by the productive prefix 'super-' plus 'cycle'; in economic contexts it denotes an unusually large or long-lasting cycle, which is inferable.

Etymology

Supercycle comes from super- meaning 'very big' (think superhero) and cycle meaning 'turn' or 'period' (think bicycle), so it suggests a very large, slow turn in an economy or industry. That's why a supercycle describes a long period of big growth or decline in a market that can last years or decades.