And futures were not built for investors, they were built for hedgers and speculators.
Teach them a trading business lesson 101, the value of market-makers, liquidity providers and speculators.
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Germans want to intimidate banks, traders and speculators from short selling PIIGS debt and EU stocks.
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In a thriving liquid market, an army of hedgers and speculators would converge on a fair price.
Mr O'Riordain refused to comment on Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond's attacks on short-selling "spivs and speculators".
Borrowers and speculators were given mortgages that no sane lender would ever have approved a few years ago.
If this were done via contracts traded on a Chicago exchange, producers, consumers and speculators could dive in.
But investor skittishness about the real estate market is slipping away, and speculators are seeing value in distressed markets.
Daily, as many as 3, 000 hedgers and speculators swarm the pits to scream for corn, soybeans and U.S. Treasury bonds.
As traders and speculators grasp the implications, copper prices should fall, and that will pressure Chinese banks that financed the binge.
In the 1940s a group of farmers and speculators set up a cooperative, building an abattoir that produced both meat and leather.
Now he is a floor broker, whose job is to execute trades for buyers and sellers--hedgers and speculators betting on interest rates.
That puts local issuers at the mercy of hedge funds and speculators.
The FTT continues to be a catchall idea for hitting up traders, investors and speculators with unaffordable and excessive government spending programs.
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He has made enemies of the businessmen who are needed to drive forward America's recovery, haranguing them as fat cats and speculators.
While analysts and cautious investors are content to wait for the plant to prove its worth, for producers and speculators there's no time to waste.
Blum adds that since the CBOE is the playgorund of hedgers and speculators, its business tends to be less prone to market movements than other exchanges.
Chinese property developers (and speculators) were among the biggest beneficiaries, as real-estate prices revived strongly in the fourth quarter, to the point where Jing sees danger signs ahead.
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It has also affected confidence among mortgage borrowers, the ability of companies to borrow against property to finance investment, and the ability of property developers and speculators to repay their existing loans.
After all, the electorate wouldn't be clamoring for change if everything were great, if easy credit remained there for the asking, stocks were hitting new all-time highs and speculators were still flipping Las Vegas condos.
And these are all traders and speculators pushing pieces of paper back and forth with each other, and that of course flowed into the creation of these, quote, "innovative, " quote, new financial instruments of unbelievable complexity.
From copper to gold, from oil to natural gas, prices for the earth's riches have skyrocketed in the past few years as emerging markets added vast demand and speculators revved up markets in ways never seen before.
Right now even professionals fail to understand some basics about the financial system from the workings of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq to the role of hedgers and speculators trading at CME Group.
On Thursday, my Attorney General also launched a task force with just one job: rooting out cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices, including any illegal activity by traders and speculators.
The Attorney General is putting together a team whose job it is to root out any cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices, and that includes the role of traders and speculators.
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Before the financial crash, the great green tech boom unleashed a rush of startups and speculators staking claims on federal waters to build massive wave farms, while in Europe governments, including Portugal and Scotland, placed big bets on wave energy.
In retrospect, the actions of the SNB are partially responsible for the continued rise of the yen, as investors and speculators were unable to pour into the Swiss currency- safe haven, seeking appreciation due to the effective peg to the euro.
Of its 10.2% deficit in 2012, 3.2 percentage points was due to the cost of cleaning up its banking system, which has been decimated by loans made to property developers and speculators during the last decade's housing bubble that have since proved unrepayable.
Lawyers for the hedge funds say the group's members have been vilified on message boards and called greedy speculators, criminals and vultures.
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