{
  "id": "relief-rally.receding",
  "term": "relief rally",
  "sense": "receding",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A rise in market prices when a wall a market read as near is read as moving away, while its reach stays as it was.",
  "folk_gloss": "a rise in prices after a feared event passes or proves milder than expected",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "reach.action",
      "relief.emergent",
      "rise.movement",
      "market.economic",
      "price.economic",
      "wall.range-end",
      "read.information",
      "near.spatial",
      "motion.movement",
      "away.spatial",
      "time.dimension",
      "persist.continue"
    ],
    "interaction": "Prices had held the fear; when the wall recedes the fear is released, and prices rise for a reason that adds nothing new.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a gain made of removed fear",
      "a rise with no new cause"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Stock markets often rise in a relief rally when a feared default, shutdown or election result passes without the feared outcome.",
      "domain": "finance"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "flight-to-safety.pulled-in",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the reverse movement, reach let out again"
    },
    {
      "id": "relief.emergent",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "relief read in a market's prices"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "relief rallies",
    "relief rally"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-relief-rally.receding"
}