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- verb Present participle of
short .
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Examples
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While there are many polls-of-polls, for this exercise in "shorting" a candidate, we will look to InTrade. com.
Steve Schohn: Shorting the Hype of a Candidate with Momentum Steve Schohn 2010
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Some of these funds buy stocks but also engage in shorting, or selling a borrowed stock in hopes that its pri ce will fall, allowing it to be purchased later at a lower price.
A Focus on Preservation Shefali Anand 2010
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It stinks, half the shorting is probably naked and we small investors are being brutalized.
Canadian Silver Bug- Friday files Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2008
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It stinks, half the shorting is probably naked and we small investors are being brutalized.
Archive 2008-04-27 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2008
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Naked shorting is shorting without locating borrowed stock.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Cargo Cult Regulation 2009
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The larger trend is down and this 2nd wave rally (whether to 12700ish or above 13000) will present the next longer term shorting opportunity.
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The larger trend is down and this 2nd wave rally (whether to 12700ish or above 13000) will present the next longer term shorting opportunity.
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By betting on failure rather than success -- known as "shorting" -- Paulson made nearly $1 billion in profit while Goldman's investors lost more than $1 billion, according to the lawsuit.
PaloAltoOnline.com 2010
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By betting on failure rather than success -- known as "shorting" -- Paulson made nearly $1 billion in profit while Goldman's investors lost more than $1 billion, according to the lawsuit.
PaloAltoOnline.com 2010
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By betting on failure rather than success -- known as "shorting" -- Paulson made nearly $1 billion in profit while Goldman's investors lost more than $1 billion, according to the lawsuit.
PaloAltoOnline.com 2010
garyth123 commented on the word shorting
In the financial sense a word that has gained a certain notoriety in recent times.
December 3, 2008