Sale of a security that is not owned by the seller is called?
Short selling is the sale of a security that is not owned by the seller, or that the seller has borrowed. Short selling is motivated by the belief that a security's price will decline, enabling it to be bought back at a lower price to make a profit.
A school bag is sold for Rs.540 after giving two successive discounts of 10% and 20%. If school bag is marked up by Rs.400 above its cost price, then fi...
There is a certain number of articles in the warehouse. Each article is given distinct codes which is either a single digit number or two consecutive si...
If the selling price of an item is 3/4 of its cost price, then what will be the loss/profit percentage?
The cost price of article A and B is Rs. ‘X’ and Rs. (X + 550), respectively. Article A is sold at 20% profit while article B is sold at 10%...
A sold an article at 45% profit. If the profit earned had been 228% more, then the profit percentage would have been numerically equal to CP. Find the a...
A shirt is marked 40% above the cost price and sold after a discount of Rs.126 at Rs.322. Find the cost price of the shirt.
The cost price of two dozen bananas is Rs. 48 after selling 9 bananas at the rate of Rs. 18 per dozen, the shopkeeper reduced to rate of Rs. 12 per doze...
A man sold an article for 40% profit. If the selling price of the article had been Rs. 210 less and the cost price had been 50% less, then the profit pe...
Among 120 sweets, 'p' sweets were sold for Rs. 5 each, while the remaining were sold for Rs. 'q' each. If Rs. 'pq' is added to the selling price of the ...
Even after allowing a discount of 40% on the marked price, a shopkeeper earns 50 % profit. By what percentage has the marked price been marked up above ...