Some, including newspaper publisher Gannett, requested the funds to help cover short-term debt coming due.
Not a huge vote of confidence, but at least a recommendation to cover short positions.
When rate hikes slam bond prices across the board, plenty of Treasurys have been handy to cover short positions.
It could be the result of a quick need to cover short positions, bets that the jobs data would be worse.
Nothing wrong in borrowing to cover short-term expenses if you know you will generate enough money to pay back the debt plus interest.
Analysts cited a combination of bargain hunting around the recent lows plus buying to cover short positions in which short-term speculators previously sold gold.
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He also said if the speculative Comex market participants come back as buyers or start to cover short positions, then that could also trigger further gains.
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This forces investors to cover short positions at unfavourable times.
The 10- and 30-year JGB yields fell to all-time lows of 0.315% and 0.925%, respectively, as market participants that were betting the BOJ would disappoint markets rushed to cover short positions.
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But reserve holdings in some emerging markets have gone way beyond levels suggested by prudential rules of thumb enough to pay for three months of imports, say, or to cover short-term foreign-currency debt.
George Gero, vice president and precious-metals strategist with RBC Capital Markets Global Futures, said he expects some buying to cover short positions from traders who do not want to hang onto bearish gold bets over the weekend.
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"When you have a large open short position and not enough physical barrels to cover your short when the contracts expire, " says Paul MacAvoy, professor emeritus at the Yale School of Management.
This analysis would suggest that any institutions who are long Yahoo and short Yahoo Japan as a hedge are probably wise to cover their short.
In utilizing the short interest data, one can look for a large percentage increase in the number of shares sold short, or the short interest ratio, which tells the number of trading days that would be needed to cover the short position.
The only reason to cover a short is if it reaches your downside target or losses its sell rating.
Meanwhile, DHI could also benefit from a rush to cover among short sellers.
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Simply know the levels at which you want to buy to go long or buy to cover a short on weakness.
Rochdale failed to cover a short corner routine and Stanton diverted the ball into his own net from Tommy Rowe's teasing cross.
That means that each time there is another sizable discovery, the shorts have to scurry faster to try to cover their short positions.
But Whitney is such a big-hearted donor to causes that I care about that I am writing this open letter for him to try to get him to cover his short now.
Credit analysts look at the corporate balance and income sheets and gauge whether or not a company has enough money to cover its short term maturing debt while paying interest on its long term loans, and still manage to grow as a company.
The current rules don't require the brokers to fix the trades by buying shares to cover their short positions after 13 days, they merely say that if the trades aren't fixed, the broker can't do any more short-sales in that security without borrowing or arranging to borrow the stock.
North wrapped up the victory when Danish Kaneria drove tamely to Ponting at short cover.
With this method, I can be open minded to cover my SPY short at the right support.
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Too many short sellers trying to cover at once creates the proverbial short squeeze, driving up prices further.
Sinclair did drive Anderson tamely to Bell at short cover but New Zealand continued to profit from England's awful fielding.
On 19, Gautam Gambhir was given a lifeline when a leading edge off Collingwood was spilled by Kevin Pietersen diving forward at short cover.
James Anderson bowled seven immaculate overs which cost only 17 and included the wicket of Herschelle Gibbs, who stabbed a back-of-a-length delivery straight to short cover.
"This indicates that it would take more than half a month of trading at the average daily trading volume to cover the current short positions, " he says.
Then came the first of the run outs, with Pietersen calling Collingwood for a suicidal single having hit straight to substitute fielder Dinesh Karthik at short cover.
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