
1) Anglo-American card game 2) Conjecture 3) Financial market 4) French word used in English 5) Gambling game 6) Guess 7) Hypothesis 8) Investment in risky venture 9) Opinion 10) Supposition 11) Surmisal 12) Surmise 13) View 14) Wall Street motivation
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1) Asset 2) Conjecture 3) Deduction 4) Divination 5) Essay 6) Gamble 7) Guess 8) Hypothesis 9) Meditation 10) Supposition 11) Surmisal 12) Surmise 13) Theory 14) Thought
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Speculation is the practice of engaging in risky financial transactions in an attempt to profit from fluctuations in the market value of a tradable good such as a financial instrument, rather than attempting to profit from the underlying financial attributes embodied in the instrument such as capital gains, interest, or dividends. Many speculators...
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• (n.) A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture. • (n.) Examination by the eye; view. • (n.) The act of speculating. • (n.) A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder...
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The purchase or sale of an asset (or acquisition otherwise of an open position) in hopes that its price will rise or fall respectively, in order to make a profit. See destabilizing speculation and stabilizing speculation.
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[Noun] Thinking, or wondering about something that you don't know the answer to.
Example: The football manager's resignation caused a lot of speculation about who would replace him.
See also: speculate
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(from the article `commodity trade`) The great bulk of commodity trading is in contracts for future delivery. The purpose of trading in futures is either to insure against the risk of ... The movements so far considered are of a precautionary nature. It is sometimes suggested, when there is a big movement of funds out of a currency, ......
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Purchasing risky investments that present the possibility of large profits, but also pose a higher-than-average possibility of loss. A profitable strategy over the long term if undertaken by professionals who hedge their portfolios to control the amount of risk.
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See turnover buying.
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The act of taking action in anticipation of an event taking place, e.g. buying dollars in anticipation that their foreign exchange value will rise, selling shares in anticipation of a fall in their prices and possibly with a view to buying them back later
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A dealer doing business with retail but concentrating more on acquiring and financing its own specul
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Spec`u·la'tion noun [ Latin
speculatio a spying out, observation: confer French
spéculation .]
1. The act of speculating. Specifically: --
(a) Examination by the eye; view. [ Obsolete]
(b) Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplatio...
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The buying and/or selling of securities, commodities, currencies etc with a view to making... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/speculation.htm?id=1346&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of speculation'>more</a>
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Speculation refers to the selection of high risk investments with the aim to profit from the anticipated movement of prices. It is not just a form of gambling as speculators take decisions on the basis of certain information before their risky endeavor. On the other hand, speculation should not be mistaken with traditional investment due to the inc...
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Speculation is a card game played with a full deck of cards. Each player contributes to a pool, the dealer paying double. The dealer then distributes three cards face down, one at a time, to each player and then turns the top card of the reaming deck face upwards for trumps. Should the turned over card be an ace, the dealer takes the pot, otherwise...
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[
n] - an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits 2. [n] - a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
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[Macbeth] (94) eyesight
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conjecture noun a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); `speculations about the outcome of the election`; `he dismissed it as mere conjecture`
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[Literary terms] a hypothesis that has been formed by conjecturing
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[SAT terms] a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
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[Literary terms] an investment that is risky but could yield great profits
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