selling short

基本解釋

The process I have just described is selling short.
以上描述的過程就是“賣空”。
For example, if CALPERS”—the California Public Employees Retirement System—“wants to buy something that a major bank is selling short, it’s not the bank’s responsibility to tell them.
比如說，如果CALPERS—加利福尼亞公務(wù)員退休基金—想要購(gòu)買一家主流銀行正在出售的短期債券，銀行沒有責(zé)任通知他們。
The first step is to acknowledge that being long and selling short in the stock market has an asymmetric risk/reward profile.
第一個(gè)步驟是承認(rèn)在股市做多和做空的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)以及回報(bào)都不對(duì)稱。

He was adding to his earnings by selling short stories and by working from time to time on movies in Hollywood.
Some economists blame speculative transactions such as "naked short selling" for plunging the world economy into a financial crisis.
In naked short-selling, the bets are made on assets that are neither borrowed nor owned by the investor.

The professionals were selling and selling short and the public was buying like mad.
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