Sentence examples for losing stock from inspiring English sources

A losing stock position can fall only to zero.

Young & Rubicam wanted a provision that would allow its top employees to leave the company without losing stock options or other benefits if WPP interfered with Y. &R. business during the first year of the merger.

Dr. Sergei Maslov, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., recently showed that if an investor simultaneously shared capital between two losing stock portfolios, capital would increase rather than decrease.

"Many people are reluctant to admit they made a mistake, and so they hold onto a losing stock in hopes that it will rise again," said Mark Luscombe, a lawyer and accountant at CCH, a tax-information provider.

You'll be selling out of a losing stock (if you bought it earlier this year), and you can use the loss to absorb any amount of capital gains.

You'd be selling out of a losing stock (if you bought it earlier this year) and you can use the loss to absorb any amount of capital gains, plus up to $3,000 of other income.

I suppose the reason for the increased numbers of homeless is council cuts, losing stocks of council flats.

As the market plummeted, Mr. Mullin was making "margin calls" on investors who had bought losing stocks with borrowed money.

It works only if you're willing to hang onto losing stocks for very long periods, in downturns that may be far sharper than you ever imagined.

Both types use similar approaches: restricting the amount of trading, using accounting and hedging tactics and selling losing stocks to offset gains.

Winners tend to keep winning and losing stocks keep on losing.