Use "selloff" in a sentence

1. Peculiarly enough, the railroads of the country were showing much better earnings in 1947 than in 1946; hence the drastic price decline ran counter to the business picture and was a reflection of the selloff in the general market

2. 7 billion (in 1966); but its profits fell from $43 million in 1968 to only half as much in 1970, and in that year’s big selloff its price declined to 22½ against the previous top of 89

3. As explained in Part Four, buying puts on a stock is a way to profit from a selloff in the stock; and it is sometimes your only alternative when your broker is out of shares to borrow

4. Interestingly, near-term forecasts were reduced after a large market selloff in 2000–2001, while the opposite happened after the 2008 selloff

5. 30: even including the heavy selloff in October 2008, which was the worst drawdown during this sample

6. Related overcrowding made each selloff worse when the turn finally came

7. Relative populations in market ecology will evolve over time: there will be more momentum traders after contrarian value strategies fail, louder and better respected market bears after a large selloff, etc