Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A period of widespread selling in a securities market, causing a sharp decline in prices.
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- noun The large-scale
selling ofstocks
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade
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Examples
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Meanwhile, a growing shift toward physical gold "ought to mean that investment will be more solid and less prone to short-term selloff of the kind seen in the futures market in late 2010 and early 2011," the consultancy said.
GFMS Sees Gold Hitting $1,600 Rhiannon Hoyle 2011
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Worries of reduced demand from China could result in a short-term selloff, says Guy LeBas, fixed-income strategist at Janney Capital Markets.
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Emerging Markets Hold Some Appeal Global fund managers are still somewhat pessimistic about investing in emerging-market stocks, with nearly half expecting a short-term selloff, Merrill Lynch & Co. said in a survey released Wednesday.
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I think at least a short term selloff is likely when the FED pauses and then again when the FED first cuts.
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"We need to differentiate between short-term selloff versus the medium-term trend of more diversification into a number of emerging-market assets," said Clyde Wardle, a developing-nation currency strategist at HSBC Holdings Plc in New York.
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He called the selloff proposal "an act of desperation for a group that has done almost all the savings it can do" in a time of austerity and municipal budget cuts.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed TAMARA BALUJA 2012
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While this is a sign of a healthy market, when it spikes to such high levels, it typically means a short-term selloff is in the cards.
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While this is a sign of a healthy market, when it spikes to such high levels, it typically means a short-term selloff is in the cards.
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Weiss believes that we could see a "major near-term selloff in the dollar," as the end of May saw "the beginning of the end of that goodwill period."
BloggingStocks 2009
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While this is a sign of a healthy market, when it spikes to such high levels, it typically means a short-term selloff is in the cards.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
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