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holdings

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for holdings.

Editorial note

To hedge their holdings of mortgage securities, they've scrambled to buy debt protection, which sometimes means buying what Mr.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of holdings gathered in one view.

noun

Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.

noun

A determination of law made by a court.

noun

A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for holdings.

noun

Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.

noun

A determination of law made by a court.

noun

A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

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To hedge their holdings of mortgage securities, they've scrambled to buy debt protection, which sometimes means buying what Mr.

2

Also, remember that the price of a stock is set at the margin, but the value of one's holdings is an average.

3

Also, in addition to the financial debt from war reparations, after WWI, Germany had it's colonial holdings stripped.

4

Exxon would love to continue boosting its domestic holdings (after making a few big bakken acquisitions previously).

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BNP Paribas loss on it's greek debt holdings is in their accounts in black and white.

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This is what companies like Eris Industries and Hyperledger/Digital Asset Holdings are focused on.

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Sears Holdings was basically a hedge fund that happened to own Sears and Kmart.

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Get in when the market P/E is 1 or 2, and dividend yield is extraordinary high, and market capitalisations are less than current cash holdings.

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However, by early 2015 their holdings were minimal, roughly €2.4B.

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But because the EU governments were unable/unwilling to accept any haircut on their holdings of Greek debt, that write down was borne entirely by private sector lenders.

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If they simply had the courage to let the open market value their holdings, they would see today already that most of the value has already gone.

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The capital injections, initially 23b euros, meant that Greek depositors were protected from what would otherwise have been inevitable losses due to enormous domestic bank holdings in Greek debt.

Quote examples

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I guess every company without a few hundred billion dollars of cash holdings and thousands of lawyers now counts as “bad at capitalism”?

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>> “The market has failed,” said Hao Hong, a China strategist at Bocom International Holdings Co...

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use holdings in a sentence?

To hedge their holdings of mortgage securities, they've scrambled to buy debt protection, which sometimes means buying what Mr.

What does holdings mean?

Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.

What part of speech is holdings?

holdings is commonly used as noun.