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Short_selling [agentive]
Short selling, a common financial market concept, involves an Intermediary selling Assets to the Market, having borrowed these Assets from a (generally implicit) Lender. The Intermediary is obligated to rebuy the Assets later, so that they may be returned to the Lender. The Intermediary's intent is to repurchase the Assets from the Market at a lower price than when he sold them, and so return them to the Lender for a profit.
Because this strategy only makes sense when the Intermediary believes that the value of the Assets is lower than the valuation assigned by other members of the market, words of this frame may be used metaphorically to refer to an Agent (usually wrongly) believing some Entity is worth less than other people do.
He was selling short shares from his brother's company on the NASDAQ and he made a fortune.
Because this strategy only makes sense when the Intermediary believes that the value of the Assets is lower than the valuation assigned by other members of the market, words of this frame may be used metaphorically to refer to an Agent (usually wrongly) believing some Entity is worth less than other people do.
He was selling short shares from his brother's company on the NASDAQ and he made a fortune.
Properties
- ID
- #2180
- Entry
- frm_short_selling
- Namespace
- Eventive.Agentive
- FrameNet version
- Short_selling (fn_1.7_2023)
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- English name
- Short_selling
Core Frame Elements (4)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Assets |
The financial Assets being traded.
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| Intermediary |
The entity that is the borrower to the Lender and the seller and later repurchaser to the Market.
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| Lender |
The original owner and soon to be Lender of the Assets.
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| Market |
The aggregate selling place of many types of financial stocks, bond, securities, etc. The Market is also a metonym for the people who buy the Assets.
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Peripheral Frame Elements (5)
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| Manner |
Any description of the intentional act which is not covered by more specific FEs, including secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). In addition, it may indicate salient characteristics of an Intermediary that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully).
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| Means |
This FE identifies the Means by which an Intermediary acts intentionally.
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| Place |
This FE identifies the place at which the short selling occurs.
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| Purpose |
The situation that the Intermediary wishes to bring about by short selling. Because this concept is associated with finance, the Purpose is normally to earn a profit.
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| Time |
This FE identifies the time at which the Intermediary engages in short selling.
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Frame-Frame Relations (1)
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Lexical Units (1)
| LU | Type | Definition |
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| sell short.v | — | FN: the intermediary profits from selling stocks high and buy them back lower then he/she bought them. |
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