floating supply

American  

noun

1. the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.

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Example Sentences

“There is less floating supply,” he said.

From New York Times

It is increase in the floating supply.

From Project Gutenberg

Activity in the floating supply makes it easier, rather than harder, for speculators to get banking accommodations which enable them to "hold" and "carry" securities, and activity in sales therefore positively tends to increase rather than to decrease, security prices.

From Project Gutenberg

Stocks of crude oil and petroleum products stored on tanker ships around the world likely fell by 27 million barrels last month, reducing a floating supply overhang that has depressed oil and product prices, U.S. bank Goldman Sachs said Wednesday in a note to clients.

From Reuters

Since many of these latter are held by what Wall Street calls "firm hands," the floating supply of Radio common shares is not large, unless the three above-named corporations have begun to sell out their large holdings.

From Time Magazine Archive