He feels certain that regardless of what the market does, his short-only portfolio will be a winner.
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But the list of funds that meet Blomquist's exacting requirements is short--only 42 stock funds and 18 bond funds.
Out of nine members of Wednesday's naked short-selling panel, only one represented an issuer who could talk about unusual short-selling activity in his company's stock.
Panesar wheeled away with five men round the bat, and Broad - in his 13th consecutive over - ended Grant Elliott's miserable 28-ball stay with another short one the batsman could only top-edge to Ian Bell at short leg.
Short-sellers would only be able to sell on a legitimate increase and, in the case of financial stocks, only after a five cent or more increase.
Another problem, of course, is the elimination of the "up-tick" rule, a controversial SEC rule change last July (well-timed to the beginning of the credit market meltdown) that removed the rule that short-selling could only be done when a stock was rising.
Banks have been reluctant to respond, but yet there have been enough mortgages modified to give a pretty clear picture that it is not a long-term cure, only a short-term band-aid.
First-time visitors to Myanmar (Burma) can be caught short by its cash-only style of commerce.
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Commodity long-short-most investors have commodity long-only.
If the Fed wants to reduce the longer-term rates that really matter, it must not only get short-term rates down, as it has done, but it must also signal to the market that they will stay down.
Ansbacher sells only short-term calls and puts--expiring in six weeks or less--that are out of the money.
Some proposals call for taxing only short-term transactions, while others would require differentiating between speculative trades and others.
But short-term memory can only store between five and nine things at once.
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As with most investment strategies, most investors have only short-term thoughts regarding it.
What if you sell and reinvest in short-term paper yielding only 2%?
Are you thinking that inflation will be short-lived, lasting only two years?
One group includes the short-term investors whose only concern is the quick profits they can score riding the coattails of an activist investor.
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Ms. Baiynd wasn't the only short-term trader flocking to the stock.
You miss the point completely by considering only short-term financial numbers.
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But back in 2003, the average long-short fund gained only 8.5%.
This provides only short-term support for economic growth, BDO warned.
Our short-sale recommendations fared only a little less badly.
There have now been nine moves of 5%-10% in less than two to 10 days, so acting quick and obeying the short- and mid-term trend are the only ways to be safe and profitable.
The Aamer-Amin partnership almost combined to remove Clarke on three, but this time Amin, again at short-leg, could only just get fingertips to the ball as it died on him, several feet to his left.
Unfortunately, the Treasury admitted in October that only 500, 000 loans have so far been rescheduled, and a congressional panel has more recently pointed out that all but around 2, 000 of those adjustments were only short-term ones.
So RIM, anxious to get into the tablet game and paranoid they would lose critical market share, rolled out a device with only short-range WiFi connectivity, a goofy scheme to bridge to a Blackberry for access to the Internet through a carrier, and essentially no applications software.
At the end of that period, if there has been no deal, the British Government will have to either suspend the assembly - even if only for a short period to give more room for manoeuvre - or call an assembly election.
Second, federal stimulus spending of this sort can have only a short-term impact on employment.
More lending to an industry that gorged on credit is only a short-term tactic at best.
We are focused only on short-run fiscal problems and are in gridlock there as well.
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