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. Michael Tarkan:

   As long as management continues to execute, you will see another level of short-covering as we move through the year.

2. Benjamin Lu:

   The weakness in the dollar seen due to the rate cut expectations and a lot of short-covering due to the sudden jump in prices are behind the sharp move, with this move, the target for gold investors has moved to $1,400 and the key is to sustain this momentum for this week. On the longer term, it is going to be difficult to stay above $1,400 as with better conditions for riskier assets due to rate cuts, investors might move to equities.

3. Colin Cieszynski:

   I think what we're seeing here is probably a bit of short-covering and bargain-hunting, just trading against the news, even though the results were disappointing, the stocks had been pretty solidly hammered already. I suspect there was already substantial disappointment already priced in.

4. 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.

5. Peter Kinsella:

   If the Fed came out rather dovish, delayed any potential rate hikes, etc, that would lead to something of a rally. So I think it's just short-covering ahead of the Fed.