Similar words: sell off, well off, well-off, tell off, smell of, sell out, counsellor, yellow-bellied. Meaning: n. a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade.
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(1) The sell-off is aimed at repositioning the company as a publisher principally of business information.
(2) The privatisation of the electricity industry-the biggest sell-off of them all.
(3) Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.
(4) Unless safeguards are introduced, sell-offs will occur.
(5) With no new junk deals sold yet this year, demand outweighed pressure from the sell-off in Treasurys, traders added.
(6) The lack of drinking water in the state is expected to force further sell-offs this summer.
(7) With the Treasury market sell-off, buyers saw higher-yielding mortgagebacked bonds as a safe harbor, traders said.
(8) Has any account been taken of the record of those advisers in past sell-offs?
(9) The selloff could begin this fall and continue into 1997, said Chuck Lambert, chief economist for the association.
(10) But Wall Street shrugged off fears of a further sell-off as leading stock markets rebounded strongly on Monday.
(11) The selloff in tech stocks happened[sentencedict.com], and the big players at aggressive growth funds started buying REITs.
(12) Certainly that is what yesterday's steep sell-off in the equity markets may suggest.
(13) That enabled the Belfast Telegraph, for example, to carry a huge article on the real cost of the sell-off.
(14) Yesterday, as the sell-off gained momentum, the stock plunged 31 / 4 to close at 281 / 4 on Nasdaq.
(15) Would the Minister find it acceptable if the same sort of windfall profits were made by the beneficiaries of the sell-offs?
(16) The sell-offs had a dramatic effect because some of the businesses were loss-makers which dragged down profits last time.
(17) George Dunn, chief executive of the Tenant Farmers' Association, said the sell-off was weighted against farmers.
(18) "This sparked a substantial selloff at the open before the better-than-expected inflation report assuaged the market and sparked a round of short-covering," Canavan said.
(19) "Every time we get a selloff or a whiff of worry, money comes in from the sidelines(sentencedict.com/selloff.html)," says MFS's Mr. Swanson.
(20) The quick selloff was said to be induced by stop-loss orders that many investors place on these shares, which trigger a sale if the share price moves a certain amount.
(21) If we selloff today and break this trendline we bounce next week.
(22) The intensity of Monday's selloff prompted some investors to question whether are ripe for a turnaround.
(23) It is during capitulation that a selloff course, and prices begin to feel for bottom.
(24) Fear about the future of his and Galleon's investments triggered a selloff Monday.
(25) Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti voiced frustration at the pace of the ECB response to a selloff of Italian stocks and bonds over the last three weeks.
(26) But regulator's move last week stoked concerns of a funding squeeze for the sector and sparked a selloff in shares and bonds in many other Hong Kong-listed Chinese developers.
(27) There is probably more substance to their statements now because we have had such a selloff.
(28) Typically, they have stepped in and started buying when we've seen a selloff.
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