Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
vendre des titres à découvert
English translation:
short stock, short-sell stock
French term
vendre des titres à découvert
Matt lance le plan concocté par son père pour déstabiliser Cortox et financer le nouveau projet. Il dévoile la prise de son père en otage et envoie des rumeurs sur les marchés après avoir ***vendu des titres à découvert***.
How does one say this - selling one's stocks short / at a loss?
Thank you!
| 4 | to short (the) stock |
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| 4 | (after) shorting the company's shares |
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Feb 12, 2012 22:10: Yolanda Broad changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Feb 21, 2012 20:27: cc in nyc Created KOG entry
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Proposed translations
to short (the) stock
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Note added at 14 hrs (2012-02-13 06:08:18 GMT)
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Only one stock involved: Cortox.
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Note added at 22 hrs (2012-02-13 13:38:57 GMT)
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Here's a reference for a definition of short a stock:
http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/investingglossary/g/shor...
Or, for those who prefer the verbing of compound nouns: "after short-selling the stock."
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortselling.asp
| Thank you m'lady :o) |
(after) shorting the company's shares
For a US audience, you could say 'stock' instead of 'shares'. But NOT 'stocks' in the plural. Only one company's stock (mass noun for the shares) is involved. 'Stocks' would imply several different issuers.
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There are two meanings of "short sale" in finance, and the *other* one (sale of a property for less than the amount owed on the mortgage loan) is much in the US news lately. It appears that the transitive compound verb "short-sell" is applied to both kinds of short sale, but I can't find any instance of the transitive verb "short" applied to the second. (Shorting is actually shorthand for taking a short position, which is not at all what happens in the sale of an underwater property.)
Jenny may prefer "short-selling" as a verb participle/gerund, but the OED has no entry for it (yet). It does have one for "short" v. in this sense.:-)
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cc in nyc
: What indication is there that only one stock is involved? // Oh, I got it: Cortox. :o
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: I hate the "verbing" of nouns! I'd prefer "short-selling the shares (or securities).
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Not just verbing but nouning of the *adjective*: 'shorting' is what 'the shorts' do. See http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/squeezingtheshort...
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Reference comments
United Kingdom
KudoZ refs
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/bus_financial/42...
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/finance_general/...
http://www.proz.com/?sp=gloss/term&id=13572796
http://www.proz.com/?sp=gloss/term&id=13572796
| Thank you, so could I equally say selling his stocks short then? |
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