speculative
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Worries about inflation have caused some seniors to stampede into gold instead, even though that is highly speculative, functionally useless and pays no dividends at all.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
Experts recommend focusing on solid, long-term investments rather than speculative ones, rebalancing portfolios to include diverse sectors.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Yet junk bonds might prove more resilient than their loan peers in the speculative credit market in rocky times ahead.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
At first they made money from illegal logging and plantations, later benefitting from a speculative property boom in the cities fuelled by Chinese investors.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
The problem was also the nature of those speculative bets.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing speculative
Grade 9, List 1
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And Then There Were None
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