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The phrase "a large short" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used in financial contexts to refer to a significant short position in a stock or asset, indicating that someone is betting against it.
Example: "After analyzing the market trends, the investor decided to take a large short position on the overvalued tech stock."
Alternatives: "a significant short" or "a substantial short".
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Mr. Lippmann persuaded Deutsche to let him build a large short position, reaching $5 billion by 2007, the report says.
He was left with only one investment, a large short position in M.B.I.A., Inc., originally named the Municipal Bond Insurance Association.
Some traders and analysts consider a large short position to be bearish because it presumably represents a strong cumulative belief that the market will turn down.
Some traders and analysts consider a large short position to be bearish, because it presumably represents a strong cumulative belief that the market will turn down.
We did have a large, short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.
Redmond admitted that he had made an error that had left a large short position, but he failed to own up to his efforts to conceal the trades until he was directly confronted.
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"I don't see a large short-term market, but I see a huge effort with so many people and such large actors that I'd be surprised if home automation doesn't take off in two or three years," said Patrick Bord, president of EGIS, a French consulting concern.
The proceeds would have been used to buy back Carrefour's shares, creating a large short-term gain for the shareholders, but the firm would have had to pay rent to the new company, thereby increasing its costs.To pull this off, the shareholders needed Carrefour to maintain high profit margins in order to absorb the extra cost of rent, which meant keeping prices high.
"Having a tightly controlled ecosystem, which is what Apple has, is a large short-term advantage and a large long-term disadvantage," said Mitchell Kapor, who as founder of the Lotus Development Corporation is a veteran of the PC-versus-Mac wars, and is now an investor in app makers.
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