short seller

noun

Finance.

1. a person, as a speculator, who sells short.

Other Word Forms

• short selling noun

Example Sentences

Shortly after the recommendation, a short seller, who sold Ramaco shares betting the stock would fall, wrote a report questioning the viability of the Brook mine.

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Famed short seller Jim Chanos said in a Bloomberg TV interview on Wednesday that people still were partying “like it’s 1999” in credit markets, with spreads near record lows.

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“Something’s got to give,” the firm said, highlighting that the phenomenon that popped the internet bubble — “the last buyer buying and the last short seller covering” — was impossible to predict.

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GIC said it purchased about 54.45 million Nio American depositary shares between August 2020 and July 2022 at prices it claims were artificially inflated, resulting in “tremendous losses” after a report from short seller Grizzly Research spurred a selloff.

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The hope for the short seller is to buy the shares back at a lower price than the initial sale, creating a profit.

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