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selloff

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sell·off  (slôf, -f)
n.
The sale or disposal of a relatively large number of stocks, bonds, or commodities that often causes a sharp decline in prices.
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Noun1.selloff - a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade
cut-rate sale, sales event, sale - an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices; "they held a sale to reduce their inventory"; "I got some great bargains at their annual sale"
Translations
selloff [ˈselɒf] N (Econ) → liquidación f, venta f; [of public company] → privatización f


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Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liam Byrne reassured Newcastle Central MP Jim Cousins the nationalised bank will not be included in a planned pounds 16bn selloff of public assets to help plug the black hole in public finances.
market selloff on Thursday should be looked at skeptically as it was a particularly low volume day.
 
 
 
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