selling short

基本解释

The process I have just described is selling short.
以上描述的过程就是“卖空”。
For example, if CALPERS”—the California Public Employees Retirement System—“wants to buy something that a major bank is selling short, it’s not the bank’s responsibility to tell them.
比如说，如果CALPERS—加利福尼亚公务员退休基金—想要购买一家主流银行正在出售的短期债券，银行没有责任通知他们。
The first step is to acknowledge that being long and selling short in the stock market has an asymmetric risk/reward profile.
第一个步骤是承认在股市做多和做空的风险以及回报都不对称。

He was adding to his earnings by selling short stories and by working from time to time on movies in Hollywood.
Some economists blame speculative transactions such as "naked short selling" for plunging the world economy into a financial crisis.
In naked short-selling, the bets are made on assets that are neither borrowed nor owned by the investor.

The professionals were selling and selling short and the public was buying like mad.
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