NOUN
- an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost
How To Use paper loss In A Sentence
- Investors 'paper losses on U.S. stocks now total $8.4 trillion since the market peak one year ago, based on the value of the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 index, which includes almost all U. S.-based companies. Wild Day Caps Worst Week Ever for Stocks
- Real estate tax breaks may shelter that income and perhaps even provide a paper loss to offset other gains.
- If you cash them in now you turn what is still a paper loss into a real loss.
