short-term

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Smucker has little control over coffee prices, so investors tend to ignore short-term fluctuations, Gumport argued.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

The term “passive income” doesn’t begin to describe the stress and emotional labor of dealing with damage from short-term renters and cleaning/maintenance fees.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

By then she had left the foundation but remained on a short-term consulting contract at his private office, where she was pitching ideas for Gates to back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

To be sure, index inclusion represents passive buying, and buying drives up stock prices, but passive buying, at best, creates short-term distortions in price, not long-term distortions in value.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Yet the compression brings a compensating benefit: long-term comparisons of regions yield insights that cannot be won from short-term studies of single societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond