Stuffing

Stuffing is a term in finance used chiefly in stock market for an act of selling undesirable securities from the broker's or dealer's account to client accounts. The chief purpose of stuffing is to avoid potential losses to the brokers or dealers on securities whose value are expected to decline. Nevertheless, stuffing cause loss to the clients. Other purposes of stuffing is to sell the securities to raise immediate cash from the such securities that are difficult to sell in the stock market.