Sentence examples for borrowing stock from inspiring English sources

Investors take a short position by borrowing stock in a company and then selling it, anticipating they can make a profit by buying that stock back later at a lower price.

The prices at which the arb would be happy to do this are subject to variables, such as the exchange rate between sterling and the euro, interest rate differentials and procedural matters, such as borrowing stock and settling trades - as well as the constantly moving price of shares in both Abbey and BSCH.

People were not borrowing stock and had no intention of borrowing stock when they shorted.

If they get squeezed and have trouble borrowing stock in those thin floats, they become urgent buyers and shove the price up.

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

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

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.

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.

He has imposed restraints on short-sellers, market speculators who borrow stock and then sell it in the hope that it will decline.

(Short-sellers borrow stock and sell it, expecting to repay the shares to the lenders at a lower price, locking in a profit).