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How to use the word selloff in a Sentence? Page #2

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Following the selloff and the fears of recession that emerged early in the new year people pulled back aggressively from their previous expectations about how a rate hike from the Fed might unfold, suddenly some of this lost confidence has been restored as we've seen a lot of recent economic data from the U.S. beating expectations.

Stefan Worrall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The increase in speculative net longs in the CFTC report certainly reflects some traders' belief that oil has put in a near term bottom after the 20-month long selloff.

Chris Jarvis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The bigger issue... what, in my mind, is driving all this selloff is that markets are losing confidence in central banks' ability to act as an effective referee.

Steven Baffico

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a very difficult market right now. Clearly, anything perceived as a risk asset is being sold down, the bigger issue... what, in my mind, is driving all this selloff is that markets are losing confidence in central banks' ability to act as an effective referee.

Steven Baffico

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The last bounce from 7200 was bought by a section of investors and now they seem to be selling at higher levels, they're getting justification from the ongoing global selloff, economy seems to be bottoming out, but that will at least take one-two quarters to reflect into earnings of the companies.

Arun Kejriwal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Maybe people were relieved that there wasn't a selloff and that kind of brought some buyers into the market, i think people are starting to focus on upcoming earnings rather than lower oil and China news.

Eric Kuby

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We haven't seen a sharp selloff as one might have expected and partly this is reflective of just how oversold levels are at the moment in the market and people were just looking for a bounce, but I do think as we slowly digest (the Chinese data), perhaps a bit of selling might come into the market in the afternoon.

Angus Nicholson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Saudi-Iran standoff is certainly one to worry over given its ramifications for oil supply, but the equity markets selloff is more pressing and difficult to ignore because of the impact of China on the global economy and overall demand for oil.

Phil Flynn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The selloff that we had coming into the Christmas week here is probably more than anything responsible for the bounce back.

Jim Paulsen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Those are the two things one everyone's minds, that's why you have some of this selloff.

Michael Matousek

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That's why you have some of this selloff. We're down but it's not like the sky is falling.

Michael Matousek

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

After a harsh selloff in commodities followed up by the recent weakness for global equities over global growth concerns, we are now having a risk-on trade.

Chris Jarvis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market is in a relief rally after five days of selloff and as investors rebalance their portfolios.

Art Hogan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We had a pretty dramatic selloff on Friday and it's normal to see some gains after that.

Randy Frederick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market is in wait-and-see mode till the The Fed meeting and till we get more news out of China, the market is pausing to digest the steep August selloff and I expect the sideways action to continue for a while.

Adam Sarhan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Today's selloff is normal after the two enormous upward days that we had, a lot of investors are rebalancing their portfolios before going into the weekend and the dips that we saw earlier in the week were good buy opportunities.

Randy Frederick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There’s no doubt that China has some real issues in front of it and the devaluation of the yuan as well as the huge selloff in their markets spell trouble ahead, so I think it’s justified.

Carly Fiorina

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Usually the last couple of weeks of August are pretty quiet. This year, there's a lot of going on, the continuation of a selloff for all commodities is something that's also lingered on. It's a period of pain for a lot of the commodity industries and producers.

Bryden Teich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Possibly in the short term, markets will selloff on that ... But it's great for the long term because it means the U.S. economy is doing better and that's good for everybody and for stocks, all that said, we are in the midst of a correction in North America. It's one that's much needed, much anticipated and very welcome.

Norman Levine

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Chinese markets rallied a little bit today and European equities are up which is also spilling over to the U.S. market after a five-day selloff which was slightly overbought.

Mark Luschini

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're making a bit of a comeback after yesterday's selloff, the volatility is still substantial. The oversupply issues in resources, particularly energy, need to be resolved.

Irwin Michael

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There a relief that (China's selloff) didn't continue. There's a relief that there doesn't seem to be any belligerent tone coming out of Greece.

Steve Goldman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market has been oversold after the recent selloff, and local investors calm down a bit in view of a relatively stable mainland markets so far this morning with short covering giving support, on the Greece crisis, people are expecting that there will be an agreement, while China's inflation data also gave support to a rebound in the market.

Ben Kwong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You've had some misguided efforts to cushion the selloff and that's ultimately led to the unintended consequence of making the situation worse.

Charles Wilson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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