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. Tamas Varga:

   We have some technical buying and pre-weekend short-covering.

2. Junichi Ishikawa:

   There is little reason to buy commodity currencies like the Aussie right now, and its gains were fuelled mostly by short covering, the only short-term lift the Aussie, kiwi and the Canadian dollar could receive are from participants shifting around their positions ahead of Friday's U.S. jobs data.

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. Chris Weston:

   We're probably seeing a bit of a dead cat bounce in these banks today because the trend is still down, there may be a few brave souls looking to dip back in but the volumes are not particularly exciting. You're probably seeing some short covering from the offshore players as well.

5. Nicholas Snowdon:

   Aluminium tops the list in terms of potential and much needed production cuts in the Western world. Also in the zinc market, we're seeing zinc mine production growing at the fastest pace in several years, given the positioning in base metals, which have swung firmly to short side, if you do see some significant production cut announcements, that could be a trigger for some short covering.