As always happens in such cases, there are some opposite numbers to those short sellers: value investors looking to buy a cheap stock unfairly trodden down by Mr. Market.
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Some stories do tear you apart, usually those where the violence is joined to some emphatically opposite quality, such as peace or tenderness.
Like the yin-yang symbol, each half of the circle embraces some of its opposite.
That doesn't mean it can't feel like the exact opposite for some of those at the sharp end.
But not all of the significant announcements in Paris were performance oriented some were quite the opposite, in fact.
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Some roads will close in Newcastle as the two marches pass through the city from opposite directions, both finishing some distance apart at around 14:00 BST.
The price will be high, the risks are large and some effects will be the opposite of what was intended.
Yet the "Storyscapes" exhibits, in some ways, promote the opposite.
For some investors, just the opposite could be true.
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Opposite his corral are some of the 15 chicken coops the Gettles have built and filled with heirloom birds.
Recent telecommunications mergers have, however, led some critics to charge that the opposite is occurring with fewer, but larger, companies invading the market.
It may be too soon to tell as banks are still weeding through the cuts but the Financial Times has an interesting piece that says shows the opposite is true in some cases.
The pattern is sadly the opposite and has been for some time.
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As a result, some advisors and customers have taken the opposite position and will not buy or offer their in-house funds at all in order to avoid any nuance of indiscretion.
The use of a sufficiently robust basket would result in a balance of errors as variations in one direction in some commodities cancel out variations in the opposite direction in others.
However, with the strong gains already clocked by investors this year, some stock strategists were moving in the opposite direction, raising warning flags about the prospect for future gains on a day when demand for Treasurys rose, nudging the yield on the benchmark 10-year note down to 1.95%.
Some greet each other as they pass in opposite directions or ring their bells at cars driving alongside.
The line got the opposite reaction from the right, some of whom has questioned Romney's conservative convictions.
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On the opposite side of the argument, some prison reformers worried that rewarding guilty pleas further might put undue pressure on innocents to throw in the towel.
But the Democratic Party is going to have to do the opposite -- that is have some serious discussions as to how it's going to confront social issues and not ignore abortion and homosexuality.
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And there are some House Democrats who would prefer just the opposite approach -- a comprehensive bill, one vote, one package to concentrate the mind of the American public and to achieve a better legislative result.
Some companies with low innovation reputation, the polar opposite of Apple, tend to outperform the market.
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The sticking power of well-to-do couples puzzles some sociologists and economists, whose theories predict the opposite outcome.
Some states looking for revenue are going in the opposite direction of Ohio.
Most of it is, of course, radiated back into space. (It is the partial blocking of this radiation by gases such as carbon dioxide that causes the much-talked-of greenhouse effect.) Some of it, however, goes in the opposite direction, into the ground.
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