How to Use sell-off in a Sentence

sell-off

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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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