Sentence examples for back on stock from inspiring English sources

However, the better than expected figures, which followed a dire December, were partly due to pessimistic retailers cutting back on stock levels to limit the amount of discounting.

In addition, the government is likely to pull back on stock deals to wind down its stakes in Ally Financial, the onetime financing arm of General Motors, as well as the American International Group, the troubled insurer.

The Charles Schwab Corporation said yesterday that its customers had cut back on stock trading and that as a result, it could fail to meet profit forecasts for the current quarter.

And while Mr. Wythe can turn a clever phrase in his lyrics, he too often falls back on stock imagery — "It's coming like a train that's running down that track," "Would I still need a mountain to climb?" — or stock sentiments.

They've cut back on stock options and cash bonuses, which were criticized for rewarding executives even when a company did poorly.

Many investors cut back on stocks during the financial crisis, and over all the public has been slow to return.

So the agency announced that it was scaling back on stocks and bolstering its holdings of fixed-income instruments.

Indeed, cutting back on stocks means backing away from the approach that virtually all public pension funds have taken for decades.

The general idea is to cut back on stocks and increase investments that are expected to rise when the stock market falls.

Already, the fund's manager, Bob Grandhi, has been cutting back on stocks like eBay and buying broader technology stocks that make software or equipment that help other companies use the Internet.

Here's a bad idea that's likely to occur to the fight-or-flight animal within all of us: Scale way back on stocks in parts of the developed world with economic woes and put the proceeds someplace far, far away, in emerging-markets stocks or gold or foreign currencies.