equities
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Technology stocks are the most highly-valued equities in the market, but they place huge demands on infrastructure to build compute and roll out datacenters.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
Asian equities struggled to make gains early Friday, with South Korea’s Kospi briefly rising past 8000 for the first time before reversing course.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
“Across the average quarter since 1990, flows into and out of equities from the bottom 50% of households amounted to 3% of their assets, nearly three times the average for the top 10% of households.”
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
The combination is expected to allow Brookfield to fully utilize its permanent capital base, adding about $145 billion of cash, equities, real estate, and other investments, to support the growth of the insurance operations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
In case of trespass or disagreement the parties come or are summoned before the agent, who examines the case on its merits, weighs the facts and the equities, decides; and there the quarrel ends.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
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