speculative

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Historical “bucket shops” serve as a parallel, demonstrating how unregulated speculative trading led to market manipulation and eventual crackdowns.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Yet they have to correct for a yearslong decline in employer response rates to BLS surveys—which does not negate the data overall, but certainly makes preliminary calculations a bit more unsteady and speculative.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

The same speculative trading that contributed to price surges early last year is ramping up again.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Overall, however, with gold down a fifth from its Jan. 28 peak, much of the deleveraging taken place and the speculative froth eliminated from positioning, Bruce is comfortable with his sizable weighting in gold.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

The most speculative option involved element 94, that purportedly hyperfissionable substance discovered in Lawrence’s laboratory.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik