The coloured lights that were supposed to illuminate Ireland's largest arts project were shorting out.

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Secondly, although the sets still have straight jacks (instead of the 90-degree kind our pockets prefer), the thicker connection should be less prone to shorting out.

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Sniffing out fraud and shorting its perpetrators has been a nice earner for Asia's hedge funds.

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The answer depends on how US economic data, Debt Ceiling Negotiations on the national debt limit, and central bank actions will play out with popular trade strategies like shorting the dollar, buy commodities, and exporters.

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The super bearish Wall Street analysts had essentially recommended shorting a stock that took off like a rocket after the 2Q numbers came out.

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If he wants to scapegoat Congress and the Federal government for shorting cities on housing, Bloomberg has an immense repertoire to choose from: the flat out failure of foreclosure policies, anti-urban transportation funding, lending that stifles mixed-use developments, and so on.

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That worked out well and is a pretty good example of how to think about making money shorting stocks.

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This hedge would most likely be done by shorting 10 front-month futures contracts on NYMEX (of 10, 000 barrels each)--thus balancing out the long position with a short one.

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