short sale

基本解释

As a source of funds for conducting securities margin purchase and short sale business.
作为办理有价证券买卖融资融券业务之资金来源。
At that time, real estate stocks were collectively at the stage of collection and short sale, thereby resulting in a downward trend.
此后，地产股同时处于募集和卖空阶段，因而引起了下降的趋势。
If shares loaned for a short sale are no longer available, we reserve the right to decide, by random selection, which positions will be subject to a buy-in.
如融券的股票已于卖空交易中沽出，我方有权决定作选择性地于股票市场上补进平仓。
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If you end up having to do a short sale later, it could be very costly.
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With the next few weeks, SROs will publish aggregated short sale volume on their websites daily.
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He had never done a short sale before, but is now negotiating three such deals.
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