UK Housebuilding Sector: Q1 2016 “Eat My Shorts, Man!â€
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In the UK, shorts are what one wears on holiday; and maybe not even then. In the US, they are under-pants. In the financial markets, shorts are a means by which one sells a borrowed security, commodity or currency with the expectation that the asset will fall in value. If it does, the investor buys it back and makes a profit; and if it does not, the opposite.
Berkeley Group, in a blunt proxy for the London residential market, has been the most heavily shorted stock in the Capital; and its share price fell 13% in Q1 - twice the Sector average.
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