The part of a stock market which deals in short-term stocks or other securities or commodities.
speculators have been borrowing money at the short end in order to buy bonds at the long end
Example sentencesExamples
- In an effort to see its reduction in short-term rates matched by declines in long-term bond yields, it has deliberately encouraged speculators to go wild: borrowing money at the short end in order to buy bonds at the long end.