Synonyms for short covering
short cov·er·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. short coveringnoun

   the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale

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1. Carsten Menke:

   Growth fears are somewhat back in the market after being overlooked in the past couple of days, a lot of the short covering which has been going on related to the supply cuts has now run out of steam.

2. Takuya Takahashi:

   We saw some short-covering on value stocks the day before, but the market is still risk averse.

3. Ben Kwong:

   The market has been oversold after the recent selloff, and local investors calm down a bit in view of a relatively stable mainland markets so far this morning with short covering giving support, on the Greece crisis, people are expecting that there will be an agreement, while China's inflation data also gave support to a rebound in the market.

4. Andre Bakhos:

   We've had a very erratic, choppy start to the year and the China news is going to give investors a reason to do some short covering and something to hang their hats on.

5. Tatsushi Maeno:

   Wherever you look - China, oil and the U.S., there is no clear evidence of improvement in economic fundamentals. So in the near term, it is hard to expect risk asset prices to gain further after a spate of short-covering.