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May 23, 2007

Speculate, speculative, speculator, speculation (meaning #1)

speculate (verb) - buying and selling for profit

speculative (adjective)

a speculator (noun) - someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains

speculate on
speculate against
hold speculative balances of a currency
speculative demand for money
heavy speculative selling
stem speculative selling of
speculative efficiency

financial speculation
currency speculation
stock speculation
property speculation

speculative flight of capital
speculative attack on a currency
a speculative bubble


Example sentences:

* Some may speculate in the dollar if it worsens.

* The citizens of a country are often barred from speculating on their own currency.

* Providing capital gains advantages to people who speculate in the stock market is equally counterproductive.

* Ten years ago (14-15 May 1997) the Thai baht was hit by massive speculative attacks.

* The advice he usually gives is to hold the stock rather than speculate on it.

* Those who get paid to feverishly speculate in currency markets must be born with a certain temperament.

* Prices fell on heavy speculative selling after the long weekend.

* This housing development is a purely speculative development.

* Central banks in the region all raised short-term money market rates to stem speculative selling of their currencies.

* If people believe that the rate of interest will rise, they will also believe that the rate of exchange will appreciate, and they will want to hold larger speculative balances of the currency.

* Speculative efficiency may well hold in the foreign exchange market.

* The speculative demand for money is part of the Keynesian Macroeconomic model.

* As the rate of interest falls, the speculative demand for money increases.

* These fluctuations in interest rates will cause further uncertainty and further shifts in the speculative demand for money.


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