bear raid
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Dumping 500,000 shares of Standard Oil on the market last week would have constituted a major bear raid; its private sale disturbed quotations hardly at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a declining market braced briefly, the investigators believed they had averted a billion-dollar bear raid.
From Time Magazine Archive
On Saturday, June 14, 1930 they warned him, said Witness Parish, that if he did not sell out they would start a bear raid on Missouri-Kansas stock the following Monday.
From Time Magazine Archive
The discovery of Senator Hanway—he who wrote the report against Northern Consolidated—as a partner in that "bear" raid, would strike his name forever from the roll of Presidential possibilities.
From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry
To hold Northern Consolidated above thirty against the double pressure of a falling market and a "bear" raid would be to the general stock list as a prop to a leaning wall.
From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry
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