underlie

Example Sentences

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Fund investors, or limited partners, are often willing to sell their stakes with discounts of as much as 25% to 30% of the net asset value of the underlying holdings, Reid said.

From The Wall Street Journal

A seventh detainee who was refusing food every other day due to an underlying health condition has also ended his protest.

From BBC

The underlying composition of inflation has improved, she said.

From Barron's

Miran also pushed back on a question about whether the investigation might damage the Fed’s credibility in fighting inflation, arguing that underlying economic trends are already pushing inflation down on their own.

From The Wall Street Journal

A trader’s required collateral scales with the total value of the underlying silver the contract represents, rather than being a static dollar amount, he said.

From MarketWatch