Billsdue: Baidu Mania
Wikipedia: Short selling
Billsdue is a blog that covers “China, Video and Online Games, and Occasional Rants”, written by a guy who knows the IT business in China well, and spends sufficient time in financial circles to use the word “short” as a verb without any explanation.
He recently used the word “short” thusly:
Baidu’s first day of trading is actually quite scary. The valuation is so out of whack with the company’s underlying fundamentals as to make you wonder whether we are approaching another speculative top. Either way I plan to short Baidu as soon as I can get shares, assuming the price is anywhere near Friday’s close.