Short (finance)
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title:
Short (finance)
text:
In finance, being short in an asset means investing in such a way that the investor will profit if the market value of the asset falls. This is the opposite of the more common long position, where the investor will profit if the market value of the asset rises. An investor that sells an asset short is, as to that asset, a short seller. There are a number of ways of achieving a short position. The most basic is physical selling short or short-selling, by which the short seller borrows an asset an
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encyclopedia
description:
Practice of selling securities or other financial instruments that are not currently owned
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)
date created:
2002-10-20T06:30:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T10:45:07Z
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