bed-and-breakfast deal
(UK, finance) The practice of selling a position on the last trading day of the year to establish a tax loss, and then repurchasing early on the first session of the new trading year, to restore the p
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(UK, finance) The practice of selling a position on the last trading day of the year to establish a tax loss, and then repurchasing early on the first session of the new trading year, to restore the position.
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