| 单词 | bear raid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbear raid bear raid n. a speculative attempt to profit from a fall in the price of stock; (also) an attempt to cause a stock price to fall, sometimes by means of unfounded rumours, in order to make a profit. ΚΠ 1865 Boston Post 30 Mar. The ten cent a share Oil Companies in Philadelphia are largely held by the boot-blacks and news-boys there and bull and bear raids are organizing. 1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. iii. 31 A grave-faced man..is spreading the news of this fierce ‘bear’ raid, by which Central has been hammered down five per cent. 1938 H. V. Hodson Slump & Recovery viii. 241 The memorandum argued that the reduction of stocks and the gradual liquidation of the private international pool were bringing the chance of a corner in tin, or of a ‘bear raid’ against it, close to reality. 1993 Independent on Sunday 24 Oct. (Business section) 2/3 His reaction to the bear raids that have hurt Betterware's share price is to bring forward the group's results to this Thursday. 2014 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. (Business section) 1/1 Mr Cawkwell, who staged a so-called ‘bear-raid’ on Quindell last May, has a short position in the stock. < as lemmas |
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