Short

Short is a financial position where an investor borrows an asset, like a stock, and sells it, hoping to buy it back later at a lower price to profit from the difference.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news as a concept related to shortages, as seen in headlines about steel, trucks, food, medicine, and memory chips.

Latest on Short

• Worker prospects in Hong Kong hair, beauty sector not cut and dried amid staff shortages
• Formal EO order on red dye diesel short on specifics
• South Africa's Coetze breaks men's 50m backstroke short-course world record
• Bankruptcies linked to labor shortages in Japan climb in first half of fiscal year
• As China and the EU begin crunch trade talks, optimism is in short supply
• France Considers Issuing More Shorter-Term Debt After Bond-Market Turmoil

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