Meanings of selling short in English

They would hammer and hammer, selling short all along the line.

In an interview, Mr Kass said he is selectively selling short some bank stocks.

Taking advantage of the inflated market, many of our shrewdest operators are selling short.

He recommended buying BRIC resource stocks and selling short a broad index of emerging-market stocks.

He has been selling short-term yen forward contracts, representing a significant proportion of his portfolio.

They have all sorts of reasons for selling short.

The Fed's "Operation Twist" was a policy last year that involved selling short-term Treasuries and buying longer-term bonds.

Then you speak to Kilmacud Crokes corner back Niall Corcoran and realise such a mindset is selling short the National League champions.

I was selling short on everything I could, stockpiling gold and silver and non-U.S. currency, and waiting to make my fortune back.

They let their friends into the secret, and there was soon a great deal of " selling short" in this stock.

In simplest terms, the researchers' trading strategy involves buying stocks of companies with the least accruals and selling short companies with the most.

I have lost track of the number of times I have had to explain the concept of selling short, and that when V.O.C.

Many investors were hoping for a third round of quantitative easing, in which the Fed buys long-term government debt without selling short-term debt.

Twist involves the Fed buying longer-term debt in a bid to reduce longer-term borrowing rates and selling short-term debt to fund the purchases.

He has a reputation for being a "bear" and selling short when everybody else is buying and being encouraged to buy.

The Fed said it was extending "Operation Twist," its effort to depress borrowing costs by selling short-term bonds to buy longer-dated ones.