Sentence examples for profit taking with from inspiring English sources

Miners suffered from a spate of profit taking, with Xstrata down 28p at £13.14 and Antofagasta off 14p at £12.99.

But now they have succumbed to a touch of profit taking, with Severn Trent down 7p at £16.38.

But mining shares suffered some profit taking with Anglo American down 40p at £12.03 and BHP Billiton 35p lower at 1304.5p.

Invensys - boosted in recent days by renewed bid talk - has seen some profit taking, with its shares now 12.3p lower at 200.9.

Upon parole on May 22 , 1933 he turned his knowledge to profit, taking (with one to four confederates) five Indiana and Ohio banks in four months and gaining his first notoriety as a daring, leaping, sharply dressed gunman.

Meanwhile Ashtead, the industrial group, also joined the FTSE 100 yesterday and also saw profit taking, with its shares closing 9p lower at 764.5p, the second biggest faller in the index.

Internet stocks were particularly hard hit, with profit taking decimating the sector's gains yesterday.

Youd think profit taking would catch up with a stock like that soon.

Computer hardware stocks were mixed as profit taking depressed some issues, with Compaq CPQQ) down 1/16 to 31 9/16 and International Business Machines IBMM) down 1/8 to 148 3/8.

With his 2002 drubbing in mind, he started with some profit taking in the summer of 2007, but as the market turned he kept liquidating his investments in an orderly retreat.

Profit taking hit the mining sector with Vedanta Resources down 45p at 705p and Rio Tinto down 82p at 1730p.