How to Use sell-off in a Sentence
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Was last week’s sell-off a blip or the start of a trend?
— Krystal Hur, CNN, 25 June 2023 -
The news rocked the French stock markets, prompting the worst sell-off in two years.
— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 17 June 2024 -
In the same vein, a miss on expectations could lead to a sell-off.
— Krystal Hur, CNN, 23 July 2023 -
The move caused a wider sell-off in stocks and sparked fears that other banks may be at risk of failure.
— Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2023 -
Worst single-day sell-off in two years Out of the $30 billion in debt Warner Bros.
— Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023 -
The report triggered a massive sell-off in Adani stocks.
— Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2023 -
In spite of the sell-off, most analysts raised their price targets for the streaming stock.
— Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023 -
Are any one of these options best able to shield a company’s stock price from a sell-off?
— Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 5 May 2023 -
The sell-off comes a day after stocks sold off sharply on soft economic news.
— Krystal Hur, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024 -
The fiscal statement, made on Sept. 23, triggered a plunge in the pound and a government bond sell-off.
— Philip Aldrick, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2022 -
The automaker slashed its 2024 guidance and triggered a huge sell-off of its stock.
— Melvin Backman, Quartz, 1 Oct. 2024 -
Hong Kong mirrored the sell-off in the Mainland’s afternoon sell-off.
— Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 -
The sell-off came amid concern that Nvidia is overvalued.
— Nicole Narea, Vox, 26 June 2024 -
Beijing intervened this week to try to reverse the sell-off.
— Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024 -
It is expected that the sell-off auction will begin on Nov. 13, court records said.
— Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024 -
Bitcoin has roared back from a massive sell-off during the scandal.
— Sallee Ann Harrison, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024 -
On the other hand, there was a steep sell-off in consumer staples, real estate, and health care.
— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024 -
Stocks have had a great year, despite Tuesday’s sell-off and the market swoon in early August.
— Greg McKenna, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024 -
Within an hour and a half, however, the gains had all but evaporated in a tidal wave of sell-offs.
— Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024 -
Regional banks and those with large uninsured deposits were hardest hit in the sell-off.
— Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023 -
Nvidia’s last two earnings calls elicited sharp sell-offs of its sky-high stock, whose growth has driven more than a quarter of year-to-date gains on the S&P 500.
— Ruth Foxe Blader, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 -
By Thursday morning, SVB shares began to see a massive sell-off.
— Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2023 -
Those concerns sparked a sell-off last week, leading all three major indexes to break a five-week streak of gains.
— Krystal Hur, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024 -
That prompted a flurry of downgrades from analysts that in turn helped spur a steep sell-off in telecom stocks.
— Krystal Hur, CNN, 18 July 2023 -
In the meantime, city officials and others are scrambling to prevent a sell-off and shutdown.
— Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2024 -
The sell-off happened in part because the country woke up to a new banking system and investors had to find the winners and losers, banking experts said.
— Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2023 -
Unsurprisingly, this news, along with Musk’s gloomy Cybertruck outlook, has caused a sell-off of Tesla stock in the days since.
— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2023 -
Investors had long feared that possibility, which meant that some of the Fed's more hawkish moves led to stock market sell-offs.
— Marley Jay, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023 -
The allegations triggered a sell-off in Adani stocks, dragging the indices sharply lower.
— Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 29 May 2023 -
The news shocked investors, triggering a broad sell-off in China’s property stocks.
— Laura He, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
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The country's bonds sold off, with the yield on the 10-year note rising toward 4.6%.
— Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2023 -
In the other 18 years, the city had to sell off buildings and stuff like that to balance the budget.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2023 -
So how does a team feel when the owner has sold off most of the major assets?
— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2024 -
After two years of rising feed prices, he was forced to sell off his sheep.
— Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2024 -
That year, the bubble began bursting when stocks sold off and IPOs slowed.
— Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2023 -
The stock is down about 16% this year, mirroring the broader market sell off.
— Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 7 July 2022 -
Still, Uber sold off its self-driving unit two years later.
— WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023 -
When Japan hiked rates, investors sold off some of those assets and sent stock prices falling.
— Max Zahn, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2024 -
Uber in 2020 sold off its self-driving car project to Aurora.
— William Gavin, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2024 -
Huawei’s revenues plunged by nearly a third in 2021, and the company sold off one of its smartphone brands in a bid to stay afloat.
— Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023 -
The data also finds that over the past year, retail investors have sold off over $55.31 billion in stocks.
— Will Daniel, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023 -
Kroger declined to specify which stores in Oregon would be sold off to C&S.
— oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023 -
That leaves open the opportunity for the new owners to construct homes to sell off.
— Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024 -
Stewart raised the topic of the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta that, if successful, would force the platform to sell off ...
— Tom Hebert, National Review, 10 May 2024 -
Both could lead to the same result of forcing Chinese stakeholders to sell off their shares in the company.
— Jeff Stein, Cat Zakrzewski, Drew Harwell and Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023 -
Both Deutsche and Fortress then sold off pieces of the loans to other institutions, spreading the risk and potential gain.
— Paul Kiel, Fortune, 11 May 2024 -
Stocks sold off from July through October, as fears built that rates would stay higher for longer.
— Charley Grant, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023 -
Last week, Kroger also declined to specify which stores in Oregon would be sold off to C&S.
— oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023 -
The company has, since 2021, been selling off its U.S. assets.
— Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023 -
The United States government is about to begin selling off a bunch of gasoline.
— Melvin Backman, Quartz, 21 May 2024 -
Last year, Austin sold off a treasure trove of the star’s possessions during a Sotheby’s auction.
— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2024 -
Half a decade later, and half a decade after the settlers left and the farm shares were sold off, Tugwell penned a preface for Banfield’s account of Casa Grande.
— Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024 -
The firm created the Town of Scotia Company in order to sell off the properties, piece by piece.
— Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024 -
As a result, many office landlords have slashed rent or sold off properties at a loss.
— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024 -
The move triggered a stock market sell off and pushed the 10-year Treasury yield to what was then its highest level since November.
— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023 -
Even farmers who are running out of groundwater may not need to sell off their land in order to restore their aquifers.
— Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024 -
Nasdaq sold off its stake in the Armenian exchange in 2018.
— Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023 -
The act required the agency to sell off the crude helium to private vendors and cease operations this year.
— Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2021 -
Berkshire Hathaway has steadily sold off around 125 million Bank of America shares since July.
— Lindsey Leake, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024 -
The Nikkei falling nearly 5%, as investors sold off stocks in manufacturing and tourism companies.
— Takehiko Kambayashi, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2024
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