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. • Trading

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1. Tamas Varga:

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

2. Dan Flynn:

   The rig count is a bullish element and might help keep U.S. crude above $50 (a barrel) and we might see some short covering rallies.

3. Jim Ritterbusch:

   Heating oil fell to multiyear lows this week, leaving it vulnerable to a short-covering rally, a lot of big shorts took profits today.

4. Andre Bakhos:

   The factors that have been driving the market have been some bargain hunting, some short covering and speculating off the belief that we have seen the worst of things, investors are taking a pause, stepping back and looking at what's the next driving element.

5. 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.