Sentence examples for taking a long position from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, at least one hedge fund appears to be taking a long position in Overstock.com.com

Mr. Coffey contended that Ms. Schwartz simply assumed Paulson & Company was taking a long position, and never bothered to directly ask Goldman or the hedge fund.

The Chinese government is well aware of this and will see little benefit in taking a long position on a short-term condition.

Instead of taking a long position in shares that will probably fall, just because the company has a big weighting in an index, a hedge fund can short them.

Short selling is often described as the opposite of taking a long position.

You can get the currency exposure either by purchasing short-term paper issued by the flaky government in question or by taking a long position in the futures market for that currency.

She took a long position in Vestel a year ago and is now up almost 100% on her investment.

In particular, these investors knew that for them to take a long position on the C.D.O.

Mason would have made much more money — hundreds of millions, in fact — had it simply taken a long position.

The authors then took a long position in the market with the highest forecasted return and a short position in the one expected to do worst.

If you thought that there is some chance that treasury yields will only rise slightly over the next few years, but also some risk of solvency problems and a panic flight from the dollar, what you might want to do is to take a long position in treasuries hedged with a long position in commodities.