Sentence examples for borrowed stock from inspiring English sources

The group, which now owns more shares than exist, demands the return of the borrowed stock.

These ghouls sell shares they do not own usually borrowed stock, which they sell in the hope of buying it back at a lower price.

From August, China will allow investors to sell borrowed stock and to take out loans to buy shares, moves aimed at tapping the country's $4 trillion of bank deposits and at promoting trading.

In Dallas, Tice runs a mutual fund called the Prudent Bear Fund, and many of his clients are short-sellers — that is, they bet that stock prices will go down, and they profit (when they do profit) by selling borrowed stock at a high price and buying it back at a lower one..

Rydex Dynamic Venture 100, up 73percentt, and Profunds UltraShort OTC, up 69.1percentt, bet against the Nasdaq 100 index, a technology barometer, by using complex financial instruments and selling stocks short or selling borrowed stock in hopes of buying back shares at lower prices.

"If the I.R.S. countenances this strategy, which involves the use of borrowed stock to achieve affiliation, a fertile new area of tax avoidance will become available," Mr. Willens wrote, "and tax advisers can be expected to enthusiastically recommend it to their clients".

The plan, announced by the Securities Commission chairman, Ali Abdul Kadir, also proposes ending restrictions on selling borrowed stocks or bonds or short-selling.

Shorts sell borrowed stocks in the hope the stocks will fall in price so they can buy their stake back at a lower price.

A short must borrow stock in order to sell it, and pay interest when he does.

He was referring to short sellers, who borrow stock and sell it in hopes that the price will decline.

In a short sale, investors borrow stock and sell it on the expectation of a market drop.