stock watering
Britishnoun
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The stock watering plan also reminds us that savvy investors and investment bankers make money when stocks fall and rise.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2024
The first way that shorts benefit from stock watering is that millions of new shares become available to sell short.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2024
Hence falsification of reports is prevented, stock watering and exchange gambling are hampered, and "wrecking," as practiced in the United States, is unknown.
From Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum by Sullivan, James William
The case of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company is only one of the innumerable instances of stock watering in the history of American railroads.
From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William
The relation of "stock watering" or "overcapitalization" to high profits.
From Problems in American Democracy by Williamson, Thames Ross
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