The level of financial speculation in commodity trading today may be 2 to 3 times normal activity.
The second that it will certainly deter financial speculation: but why would anyone want to do that?
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Coal is my best example because unlike copper it trades on no exchange, impervious to financial speculation and manipulation.
The first is that they claim that they wish to reduce financial speculation.
Mr Chancellor, a reviewer for The Economist, has produced a thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of financial speculation from the 17th century on.
The prosperity was built on little more than a housing bubble and on financial speculation -- people maxing out on their credit cards, taking out home equity loans.
Even before this particular crisis, much of our growth for a decade or more had been fueled by unsustainable consumer debt and reckless financial speculation, while we ignored the fundamental challenges that hold the key to our economic prosperity.
Experts at Ux Consulting (UxC), which produces what has become the industry standard price index for uranium, noted that while underlying fundamentals remain strong, financial speculation and the possible dumping of supplies into the market could keep prices for the yellow metal suppressed in the short to medium run. (Read Uranium and Nuclear Stocks Feel The Shock Waves Of Fukishima Meltdown).
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It will favour steady financial activity over high-risk speculation and steer the financial sector towards the real economy.
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As the sharks circled beleaguered subprime lender New Century Financial Monday, speculation also swirled about which investment banks held the most exposure to the sector.
Or if you want to go a bit further, why and how there is arbitrage and speculation in financial markets.
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With all the speculation over financial reform swirling, JP Morgan may be wise to wait and see the new rules before raising the yield.
Because we hadn't enforced basic rules of the marketplace, we saw more and more of our economy built on speculation and financial schemes that were inherently unstable.
That, as with so much else at a time of financial turmoil, is mere speculation.
The financial press is rife with speculation concerning when Bank of America will place them in bankruptcy.
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Untrammelled speculation in commodities and financial derivatives brought the financial world to the brink of collapse just three years ago.
One is a financial crisis, born of reckless speculation that threatened to choke off lending to families and to businesses.
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The financial press is already filling with speculation on who the Obama administration may turn to in order to file this prestigious post.
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One was a financial crisis, brought on by reckless speculation that threatened to choke off all lending.
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Immediate speculation that the former chief financial officer of Bank of America , Alvaro de Molina, might be a contender.
The stumbles are the latest sign of frenzied speculation about Europe's financial system, including rumblings about a possible funding shortage among European banks.
On a number of occasions, Gaydamak and Storrie moved to refute speculation that Portsmouth were in financial difficulties, but their denials were unconvincing.
But the continued bad news and negative speculation about the health of financial companies weighs heavily on financial markets, even when the rumors appear to be largely unfounded.
Mr. BOGLE: Well, what happens is the financial system is usually the source of the speculation that brings about the cycles in the market.
Combining this with their zeal for yield (and plentiful liquidity to finance it) led to immense speculation that was implemented by gigantic financial leverage.
There is fresh speculation Spain will not ask for a financial bailout from the European Union this year.
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During a conference call last week to talk about fourth quarter earnings, Merrill's chief financial officer, Jeffrey Edwards , put off the speculation.
Her predecessor quit rather than impose capital controls that then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad chose to protect the ringgit against speculation at the height of the Asian financial crisis in 1998.
In November 2010, Ireland and the EU agreed a financial rescue package worth 85bn euros, ending weeks of speculation about a bail-out.
However, comments about the future size of the budget deficit could lead to speculation about constraints on spending in the next financial year.
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