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The concern is that investors borrowing in the low-yielding yen to reinvest elsewhere — what’s called the carry trade— will have to pare or eliminate those bets as the yen rises.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Potential consequences: It sets up potential inflation relief for shoppers and restaurants looking to pare down their costs for protein, Patrick writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
News that shipping continued in the Red Sea helped investors pare the gains on Friday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Weak leasing activity and an overabundance of space combined to push the nationwide vacancy rate up to an 11-year high last year and led many developers to pare back construction plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
All the f’s are fractions, having values between 0 and 1; they will pare down the large value of N.. To derive N we must estimate each of these quantities.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
First, the order pares the list of recommended immunizations to 11 diseases from 17.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
MS pares forecasts for immunoglobulin and albumin revenue growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Moderna pares early gains even as the drugmaker posts higher revenue and a narrower loss for the first quarter.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
Her style, she explains, pares food down to its essentials, and she rarely uses more than three colours to aid wearability.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
The Old Dominion was accustomed to thinking of itself as primus inter pares in any confederation of states.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Long-term government bond yields -- which this week touched two-decade highs -- fell as investors pared back their inflation expectations, which at 3.4 percent is currently well above the bank's two percent target.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
The closely watched level was crossed overnight after comments from Fed Gov. Waller pared expectations of aggressive rate hikes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Shein pared some losses, ending the day with a decline of about 4% at HK$46.58, or $5.94.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
It pared some gains to close at 845 yuan, up 460 percent.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
He was hungry, and his meager diet had pared his body down to a feral scrawn of gristle and bone, but he seemed to be in reasonably good health.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
The stock plunged as much as 25% in premarket trading soon after the results, before paring losses.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
—Bitcoin rose as a paring of U.S. interest-rate rise expectations supported risky assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The Japanese unit strengthened from a four-decade low around 163 to the greenback Friday, to 155.23 Monday, its best level since May, before paring the gains.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Shares opened around 6% higher in morning trading in Milan before paring some gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
I looked at my hands, thinking about all they had said, paring it down wearily.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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