sell short
Example Sentences
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These “loser” stocks are ones that are difficult to borrow in the share-lending market and therefore hard to sell short.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Members were still free to sell short any Union securities they wished, though.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
The fund is known as a 130/30 fund, and the concept is that if you give me $100, I buy attractive names, then sell short $30 worth of stocks we think will underperform.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
It would not be advisable to sell short either Leonard Leo or this Teneo Network, whatever the hell it is.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023
The various floors, or tranches, of subprime mortgage bonds all had one thing in common: The bonds were impossible to sell short.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
