capital loss
Sold below cost
Capital loss is money lost when an asset sells for less than its purchase price—the opposite of capital gain.
The term appears mainly in finance and tax contexts: She offset her capital gains with capital losses from the stock sale.
Losses on investments held longer than a year are long-term capital losses; shorter holdings produce short-term capital losses.
Asset value reduction over time
- write-downReduction in recorded value
- divestitureDisposal of assets
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- sell-offRapid mass divestiture
bear market · correction · downturn · underperformance · holding period · cost basis · fair market value
Expecting market decline
- crashSudden violent impact
- correctionFixing of mistakes
- downturnEconomic decline period
- volatilityRapid, unpredictable changeability
bear market · plunge · slump · panic · selloff · distressed · oversold · decline
Conclusion from premises
- write-offRecorded value reduction
- carryoverAmount brought forward
- offsetCompensate by opposing force
- taxable incomeEarnings subject to taxation
tax liability · short-term · long-term · harvesting · tax bracket · IRS · filing · adjustment
depreciation
Asset value reduction over time
- write-downReduction in recorded value
- divestitureDisposal of assets
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
sell-off · bear market · correction · downturn · underperformance · holding period · cost basis · fair market value
bearish
Expecting market decline
- crashSudden violent impact
- correctionFixing of mistakes
- downturnEconomic decline period
volatility · bear market · plunge · slump · panic · selloff · distressed · oversold · decline · contraction
deduction
Conclusion from premises
taxable income · tax liability · short-term · long-term · harvesting · tax bracket · IRS · filing · adjustment · netting
- entrepreneurship riskangel investors, market risk, financial risk, burn rate, runway
- financial lossesdeficit, write-off, write-down, bad debt, red ink
- financial risksbad debt, credit risk, insolvency, market crash, volatility
- write-offsbad debt, charge-off, tax deduction, losses, depreciation
- Capital Gainstaxable gains, stock sale, property sale
- investment taxesdividends, investment income, short-term gain, short-term gains, long-term gains
capital losscapital gain
Profit from asset sale
capital gains · profit · gain · appreciation · financial gain
loss, capital, capitalism, capitalist, capitalize, capitalists, capitalized, capitalizing, capitalistic