Synonyms for short covering
short cov·er·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. short coveringnoun

   the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale

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1. • Trading

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1. Tatsushi Maeno:

   Wherever you look - China, oil and the U.S., there is no clear evidence of improvement in economic fundamentals. So in the near term, it is hard to expect risk asset prices to gain further after a spate of short-covering.

2. Kang Yoo-jin:

   Technical short-covering and a cold spell in the United States and some parts of the northern hemisphere had helped prices rally temporarily, most of which was wiped out if you look at yesterday's prices, psychological factors have driven the severe volatility in the market.

3. Kaname Gokon:

   I'm not seeing a lot of direction for the market, there is some short-covering on wheat and soy ahead of the USDA report.

4. Peter Cardillo:

   Oil continues to be the main driver of the markets. It's the fear factor of oil continuing to move lower and its impact on oil debt around the world, the market will probably be led by short covering.

5. Tamas Varga:

   We have some technical buying and pre-weekend short-covering.