speculative
Example Sentences
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Investors are souring on some speculative bets on unprofitable tech companies, while individual firms’ earnings reports or data-center construction updates spark price swings across the sector.
Fake and speculative tickets pop up all over secondary market ticket sites, due to high demand and limited stock.
From Los Angeles Times
While Bitcoin generally behaves like a speculative risk asset, the new breed of Bitcoin ETFs were frequently pitched to investors not as lottery tickets, but as vehicles of diversification.
From Barron's
But tech stocks and Wall Street’s more speculative bets took another leg lower, too.
The bank said the digital token was moving from being a "purely speculative asset" into a more realistic phase as an asset that "needs to find its specific role".
From BBC
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