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These features make the oil market vulnerable to speculation.
But leaving the system unchanged will maintain the global economy’s vulnerability to future bouts of speculation that we cannot afford.
Speculation and hoarding have also been contributing to food-price spikes.
Speculation abounds that the panel might recommend outsourcing Doing Business, removing its rankings of countries for the ease of doing business in them, or even eliminating the report altogether.
Medvedev’s statement should end speculation about whether he is running, yet it keeps the suspense alive regarding Putin, whose influence is far greater than that of Russia’s meek president.
Chinese savings flowed not into creating new assets, but into financial speculation and consumer binges.
Heads of cabinet and their staffs act as sensitive political antennae and as information filters, so the tally of German nationals in such positions attracts close attention and much speculation among Brussels insiders.
But this time, credit expansion is not flowing into housing construction, but rather into commodity speculation and foreign currency.
This has fanned speculation that a “mismatch” between workers’ skills and employers’ needs is a significant factor behind the elevatedunemployment rate.
Recent speculation that China’s economy may soon be as large as America’s has boosted this interest further, causing many to believe – whether ruefully or gleefully – that the renminbi will soon dominate.
We encounter speculation that US President Donald Trump is intent on packing the Federal Reserve Board with politically compliant appointees.
Her sudden disappearance has sparked much speculation about the fragility of the “Young General’s” regime; despite her notorious drinking habits, she was widely seen as the power behind Kim Jong-un’s throne.
Massive speculation and borrowing led to excessive debt burdens and ultimately, to default.
For these sectors, rapid investment-driven growth in the past decade has produced a mountain of excess capacity, reflected in stagnant prices and the banking sector’s soaring volume of bad loans, as price wars squeeze profitability and stimulate real-estate speculation.
After all, with the Chinese economy undergoing wholesale economic transformation, estimating a long-term equilibrium exchange rate that will anchor speculation is virtually impossible, particularly given persistent doubts about data quality, disclosure, and opaque policymaking processes.
If Greece defaults, an enormous amount of speculation will be possible.
But Lapid himself ended the speculation by indicating that his own choice was to join Netanyahu’s government as a major partner.
Again, this would inevitably trigger hot-money inflows, with speculators taking advantage of the spread between Chinese interest rates and the near-zero, short-term rates in developed economies, thereby driving up the renminbi further (and creating yet more opportunities for speculation).
The correct approach to solving Argentina's problems in 2001, and now, would have been to end speculation over devaluation.
Markets are imperfect controllers of their own fate as are all human endeavors, particularly those based on speculation and greed.
Having selected Swamy for Parliament despite his unsavory reputation, the government’s failure to curb his indiscriminate attacks led to speculation that it had chosen him precisely to attack those– like Rajan – whom it wanted to undermine.
For this reason, it is all the more important that the leaders not remain silent when a climate of speculation develops.
Speculation is growing, for example, about whether Kim Sol-song – the second daughter of Kim Jong-il’s third wife – will be appointed when Kim Kyong-hui is no longer able to perform her duties.
But amid speculation over the coming challenges and changes, the one new appointment that could make or break the EU over the next five years, that of the European Council president, has been completely overlooked.
Speculation about who will succeed Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has already begun; ultimately, however, the answer will probably make little difference.
But, as speculation over the direction of monetary policy continues – indeed, intensifies ahead of the Fed’s next policy meetings – we should not lose sight of an uncomfortable reality: No matter how hard it tries – and it is trying very hard – the Fed is still stuck with tools that are too blunt, and whose effects are too indirect, for the challenging tasks at hand.
This is not speculation; it is happening now.
Some of these may be false flags or bits of speculation, but others may be true, and possibly horrifying.
Nowadays, the banking industry shapes decision-making worldwide, exemplified in its enduring right to unlimited speculation and its capacity to capture profits that are unmatched by any other industry, especially for its senior managers, while exposing the world to overwhelming risk.
America’s seemingly hostile attention gave rise to the speculation that Crown Prince Abdullah’s initiative really denotes a Saudi public relations counteroffensive, hatched in the Saudi embassy in Washington to cover over the rift with the US.
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