Instead, availability of land simply fed speculative activity, which has made the popping of the bubble much more painful.
In the platinum group metals, speculative activity was mixed in the disaggregated report.
FORBES: FOCUS: Speculative Buyers Mostly Return To Precious Metals -CFTC
This is especially the case since some of the uptick was speculative activity, said a research report this week from Commerzbank.
"In the case of oil, speculative activity tends to ensure that a portion of the oil that is currently produced is put aside to guard against the possibility of disruptions or shortages in the future, " Bernanke wrote.
Banks benefiting from their FDIC backing and ability to access the Federal Reserve's discount window will be required to curb their speculative activity, while those that do not receive explicit government aid will be free to take big risks as well as fail.
This is the only economic equation that matters in pension fund provision, and the investment of pension funds in speculative activity such as equity investment, which generates not one penny of new real economic activity in most cases, makes a mockery of this process.
After significantly building up their net-long positions in gold futures and options contracts on Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange in the past three weeks, speculators completely eliminated those recently established long positions in the latest count of speculative activity from Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Speculative bullish activity is heaviest in the front month, with deep out-of-the-money calls seeing the most volume.
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Defenders of the plan will argue that the new banking limits will rein in "speculative" activity and "risky" proprietary trades, but both are in the eye of the beholder.
With very little time until expiration, front-month options activity is especially speculative.
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Activity by the speculative traders was mixed in the two reports.
FORBES: FOCUS: Speculators Add Again To Precious Metals Futures, Options -- CFTC
As I have said in this space before, front-month options activity is especially speculative, given that these contracts expire in less than two weeks on Oct. 22.
Options activity in the October series is especially speculative, given that these contracts expire in about two weeks on October 22.
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Barclays Capital said the rise in the speculative position comes on a combination of new longs and short covering activity.
FORBES: FOCUS: Speculators Mostly Return As Buyers To Metals -- CFTC Data
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