41. Tokyo stocks gained moderately Tuesday on short covering and bargain hunting of high tech blue chips. 42. Economic fundamentals were unchanged and trading was confined to technical factors and short covering by speculators. 43. Short covering on news is likely _ but by no means does that change the trend.44. The short covering was partly spurred in anticipation of a speech by Vice President Dick Cheney. 45. Gold futures rose because of short covering . 46. Short covering is the buying and returning of borrowed securities sold in anticipation of a price decline.47. But analysts said the gains were meaningless and attributed them to a practice commonly called short covering . 48. Short covering means buying back and returning shares borrowed and sold in anticipation of a price drop.49. Short covering means buying shares to return those borrowed and sold in anticipation of a price drop.50. Bonds were also supported by short covering and by signs that the Federal Reserve was buying securities.
