To most practitioners it would appear that the accelerated undershoot of the euro that was taking place prior to intervention was precisely fuelled by position-taking on the assumption that the monetary authorities had no stomach for co-ordinated intervention (too close to America's election).
In the legacy report, funds cut more gross shorts than gross longs, lowering their net-short position to 12, 992 contracts, taking their net-short position to the lowest since mid-March.
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In the legacy report, funds cut 670 gross longs and cut 5, 548 gross shorts, lowering their net-short position to 18, 464 contracts, taking their net-short position to the lowest since mid-March.
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The stock surged 25% from December 2010 to February, when Tilson announced he was closing the short-position and taking the losses.
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As soon as one party lays down a position, the other party is taking that counter-position.
These are the factors that will push CIOs to a more risk-taking position.
Some profit-taking from recent gains and position evening slightly offset fresh safe-haven demand.
Profit-taking pressure, position evening and lower crude oil prices are putting some initial downside price pressure on the precious metals early Friday.
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This was likely to have prompted profit-taking by speculators who had built up their largest net-long position in months, the bank said.
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Look, he filed his papers last week to start an exploratory committee to run for president, and he is - this is the position he's taking.
Dunaway joined Nintendo of America in November 2007, taking the position vacated by Fils-Aime after he was promoted to his current position as president and COO.
Experienced investors know that looking at each position is a better strategy than taking an all-in or all-out approach.
Brew then went close with a kick and chase, setting the position for a close-range driving maul, Charvis taking control to cross for the opening try.
Sunday's play had started with Andrew Strauss's side in a strong position after taking five cheap wickets on the rain-truncated third day to leave Bangladesh on 237-7, well adrift of England's opening 505.
Miller also defrauded another broker-dealer into taking on a significant short position in Apple stock to hedge against the large purchase of Apple stock he was executing at Rochdale, authorities said.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in Monday as director of the Office of Homeland Security, taking over a new Cabinet-level position charged with coordinating U.S. efforts to defend against and respond to terrorism.
Through related transactions, BP will build up a 19.75% position in Rosneft, which will be taking over TNK-BP, a deal the British oil company expects to be finalized during the first six months of 2013.
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Shares of PRB Energy have gained 40% in value since Jan. 15, and the gurus found this quick gain quite acceptable, taking profits on their entire position in the Denver-based natural gas production and pipeline company.
This time the guerrillas are seeking to reinforce their position in the peace negotiations by taking control of as many local-government posts as possible.
This may be an extreme position, but there is ample evidence that the bottom-line mentality is taking over.
The carrier you piloted had to move around an archipelago of islands, taking them over to bolster its strategic position, while a computer-controlled enemy carrier did the same.
She said people in Mr Lamhoud's position were taking great risks, and that the "pink card" - giving the right to remain pending the processing of a claim - offered no long-term security.
Barcelona are in pole position to make their way through to the semi-finals, but they will curse taking their foot off the gas and offering Arsenal some hope when they travel to the Nou Camp for the second leg.
May, taking over the place-kicking duties as well as Wilkinson's position, inched Toulon back ahead but Blair replied for Blues to leave things deadlocked entering the final quarter.
You can get the currency exposure either by purchasing short-term paper issued by the flaky government in question or by taking a long position in the futures market for that currency.
It is not clear, for example, how such a large position was allowed to build up over the three-month period that the activity was said to be taking place.
The killing, rather than taking up a central position in the story, acts as a mirror of the close-knit Pakistani community, especially for Jugnu's brother and sister-in-law, Shamas and Kaukab.
He notes that Amazon is taking an extremely aggressive posture on pricing, and he points out that Amazon is in position to cross-sell other services.
"The politics of being mayor at a time when racial polarization was taking place put him in a very unpopular position, " said Rep. Charles Rangel, the long-serving Harlem Democrat who backed Mr. Koch in 1977 but supported Mr. Dinkins in 1989.
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Add to that the fact that Internet companies with a lot more sex appeal than LinkedIn -- including Facebook, Groupon, Pandora, Yelp and Zynga (makers of FarmVille) -- are all likely to go public within the next year, and you have LinkedIn taking the pole position in what will be a tidal wave of social media companies entering the public markets.
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