Divergence

  

Wasn't that the original movie that "made" J-Law?

Two stocks were wandering in the wood. They came to a rock. One took the high road, one took the low. They...diverged.

The term applies to companies and industries and/or to the stocks representing their value in whcih those companies produced divergent results. Think: MySpace v. Facebook.

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