sell
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AlphaValue maintains its sell rating and 35.80 euro target price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Should I sell my house because of dangerous stairs — or spend thousands renovating?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Booking and Expedia also sell sponsored listings that steer travelers toward particular properties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Now, Citroen wants to draw on that heritage to sell an electric, small city car that is expected to sell for less than £15,000.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
His idea was to sell it to banks, insurance firms—businesses that needed secure links between offices in different cities.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
"It's usually what people are seeing on TV that sells well. Some years ago it was boiler suits from Squid Game, everyone wanted that," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Firmus, which sells Nvidia-powered computing capacity to large technology companies such as OpenAI and Meta Platforms, pulled plans to raise $5 billion after investors balked at its proposed $30 billion valuation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Christy orchestrates the elaborate stagecraft that sells the illusion of a bustling organization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Md Emon Khan, 28, left his garment-factory job in Dhaka and returned to Rooppur, where he now sells vegetables and fruit to workers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
She keeps an honest, one price house, sells no hard liquor, and permits no loud or vulgar talk in her house.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
An autographed Chicago Bulls jersey worn by Michael Jordan during Game 2 of the 1998 NBA Finals was privately sold to a Miami real estate investor for $14 million, an auction house announced Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Roughly 3% of the $400 billion that Fannie and Freddie sold into securitizations in the six months through September was tied to VantageScore, up from essentially zero, according to trade publication Inside Mortgage Finance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
But as in a two-for-one, if you can be sold on the myth that AI is superhuman, it travels along with the idea that regular humans are disposable.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
"A lot of fans are wondering why he was sold," Ali Speechly, co-chair of the Women of the Lane supporters' group, told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Lippmann spent twenty hours with one hedge fund guy and thought he had him sold, only to have the guy call his college roommate, who worked for some home builder, and change his mind.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
However, the interest rate backdrop remains challenging and leaves the precious metal vulnerable to renewed selling pressure, the regional director says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
During the pandemic, when Wolf quit her 9-to-5 job and had the opportunity to focus on music, she began releasing songs regularly online to a slow and validating growth, selling out her first postpandemic concert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Assuming your sister lives there for two of the five years before selling, she may qualify for the $250,000 federal home-sale exclusion.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
"Things were just chumming along pretty good," he said, selling cattle for $240 per hundredweight - but that's dropped to $225.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Sure enough, shortly after Lippmann’s visit, AIG FP stopped selling credit default swaps.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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