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Do reports badly, leading to instruction to sell shares (4,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stop order

'instruction to sell shares' is the definition.
(financial term)

'do reports badly' is the wordplay.
'badly' is an anagram indicator.
'do'+'reports'='doreports'
'doreports' with letters rearranged gives 'STOP ORDER'.

'leading to' is the link.

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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