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short selling

British

noun

finance the practice of selling commodities, securities, currencies, etc that one does not have in the expectation that falling prices will enable one to buy them in at a profit before they have to be delivered

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Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, on Monday appeared to equate all short selling with market manipulation, prompting traders to say that prosecutors misunderstood the activity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

“I don’t think this makes short selling illegal, but I don’t think the trial gave us enough to say what it does mean,” Sutter said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

The technical Wall Street term for investors short selling space stocks right now is “getting your face ripped off.”

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Another proposal would make the margin required on short selling to increase as the short interest rises.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

It were well if ill-informed people who deprecate short selling would note this fact.

From The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 by Noble, Henry George Stebbins

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