Sentences with phrase «for financial speculation»

Many platforms, including those building marketplaces on the blockchain, are doing great to extending the application of cryptocurrencies to other use cases other than just assets for financial speculation and ICOs.

It then follows the consequences of allowing those basic human needs to be used as raw material for financial speculation — which include financiers profiting from a rise rather than a decline in human misery.

The rates that have responded most significantly to lower borrowing costs are short - term loans for financial speculation, above all for derivatives and related buying or selling of stocks and bonds on margin — enormous gambles on which way the dollar, the stock market and interest rates may go.

Not exact matches

In the past week, Walmart, Sears, and Target have all been under the microscope for, respectively, disappointing financial results, staff cuts and speculation over consumer malaise.

Back in 2014, he wrote a Financial Times op - ed in which he criticized the virtual currency for being «unsuitable as a means of exchange» and said it was only attractive for two reasons: anonymity — as desired by money launderers and tax evaders — and speculation.

Long - time telecom analyst Craig Moffett, of MoffettNathanson Research, had been warning for months that Sprint's (s) rising stock price, largely due to merger speculation, couldn't be supported by the carrier's financial results.

Purely speculation on my end, but while 401k and other retirement saving is the status quo for financial security during retirement, pensions was much more common for baby boomers.

The U.S. media are silent about the most important topic policy makers are discussing here (and I suspect in Asia too): how to protect their countries from three inter-related dynamics: (1) the surplus dollars pouring into the rest of the world for yet further financial speculation and corporate takeovers; (2) the fact that central banks are obliged to recycle these dollar inflows to buy U.S. Treasury bonds to finance the federal U.S. budget...

Those moves led to speculation that Mueller may be looking for evidence of financial improprieties as part of his investigation.

In the face of the repayment burden shrinking the U.S. economy, the Fed's idea of helping the banks «earn their way out of negative equity» is to provide opportunities for predatory finance, leading to a flood of financial speculation.

Throughout 2014, financial traders around the world have been enthusiastically taking to bitcoin as a new area for speculation.

Prior to the meetings scheduled for today and tomorrow, vice president of Germany's Bundesbank, Claudia Buch, stated that «the role of crypto tokens in money laundering and criminal activity must also be closely examined,» but also that she doesn't «see a threat for financial stability at the moment as the speculations are generally not financed with loans and the relevant markets are rather small.»

To the uninitiated, market trading may sound like something reserved for the financial elite, but with the proliferation of online currency exchanges and trading platforms, anyone can take part in market speculation.

Instead the main reasons for growth of private cryptocurrencies have been passion for technology, avoidance of bank payment systems, and financial speculation.

America's leading financial news channel is back in full «interest rate» coverage... as producers appear to believe that non-stop speculation (about something we already know won't happen) is good for ratings.

«The economic powers shall continue to justify the current world system, in which speculation and the aim for financial returns... ignore... the effects on the environment and on human dignity... environmental, human and ethical degradation are intimately connected.

ATTACs principal focus areas at the moment are: the different forms of taxation of financial transactions, in particular the Tobin tax on currency speculation; the creation of new instruments for the regulation and control of finance at the national, European and international levels; the battle against tax havens and financial crime; and the demystification of pension funds.

If Fitzgerald was attentive to the ways in which financial capital was based on speculation, perhaps this time Luhrmann is attentive to the free expenditure of capital as the basis for the celebration of one's own individual identity in terms of consumer choice.

A respected international watchdog, the Financial Stability Board, has regularly praised Canada's financial management for its effectiveness in policing against risky speFinancial Stability Board, has regularly praised Canada's financial management for its effectiveness in policing against risky spefinancial management for its effectiveness in policing against risky speculation.

We don't understand that financial capitalism relies on turning our most basic social needs into opportunities for speculation.

The news sparked speculation of financial struggles at PLA, talk that last erupted in 2011 after the IRS placed a $ 719,241 lien on the firm for unpaid payroll taxes.

They play a very important role for the investors by helping them in risk management, hedging and speculation, along with bringing a huge impact on the entire financial structure of government, a country and the whole world.

All this doesn't mean responsible investors can't make room for a little bit of speculation — as long as they have a strong financial foundation.

Behavioral economists have known for a long time that people are not completely rational beings and that behavior plays out in the financial markets, where we see evidence of herding behavior, speculation and mania.

All in all, this is simply speculation... But even if the end result's simply a more valuable «financial» stake, this should prove to be another positive financial / news catalyst for Total Produce.

Robert Shiller, a Yale economics professor, provides an in - depth look at potential causes of mispricings within financial markets, tell tale signs of mispricings, and potential cures for avoiding the long run consequences of irrational speculation in the future.

The Fed would only take away the punchbowl for modest amounts of time, so speculation on debt instruments, real estate, financial institutions, etc., could go on to a much greater degree.

In turn, financial wizards making bets with CDOs and credit default swaps used subprime mortgages as the raw material for their speculations.

The speculation begins with Japanese Financial website Money - Link; which has indicated that Nintendo's long time producer of ROM chips Macronix is expecting a bumper order from Nintendo in the latter half of this year for it's products

Even though newcomer artists and young professionals do create hype in certain neighborhoods, the expulsion of longtime residents is a result of (international) property speculation and its subsequent utility as a tradable asset for securitizing debt — financial capitalism.

UNDER THE RUBRIC «The Encyclopedic Palace,» curator Massimiliano Gioni has proposed a tantalizing vision for the Venice Biennale: Forsaking the field of art as the locus and playground of commerce, financial speculation, and inflated economic value, the grand international exhibition's fifty - fifth iteration instead attends faithfully to the complex terrain of pure imaginative invention.

Discussing an artwork by the Swedish artists Goldin + Senneby and a brief but important building occupation in Oakland, California, Myers will argue that new forces of financial speculation and digitization inflect a Lefebvrean analysis of space in the present, and produce new challenges and possibilities for urban resistance.

We also call for an end to land grabbing, by ensuring communities land rights are upheld and financial speculation of food commodities is reined in.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

[258][259] However, mere speculation (for example, about financial losses that may follow the accommodation of a person with a disability) will not generally be persuasive.

After a lot of speculation for fishy trading activities going within the decentralized cryptocurrency world, financial regulatory bodies across the globe are working towards introducing regulatory frameworks for local cryptocurrency trading platforms and exchanges...

As for bitcoin trading, all the stringent Know Your Customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering regulations point to one strategic bottom line: speculation of bitcoin must not result in any social or financial instability in China.

If no project can prove this and tokens still remain a tool of pure speculation, or even cause for financial instability, it remains highly unlikely that the Chinese government (or any other government, for that matter) will soften its regulatory stance.

To the uninitiated, market trading may sound like something reserved for the financial elite, but with the proliferation of online currency exchanges and trading platforms, anyone can take part in market speculation.

The report surmises that the «primary use case of Tether appears to be financial speculation, with many exchanges allowing their customers to buy and sell Tether in exchange for crypto tokens such as bitcoin ``.

Is the currently staggering price level of Bitcoin, which is to a great extent caused by hedge funds and other financial players buying Bitcoin at the moment, therefore just irrational speculation for profit as greater fool theory suggests?

Chinese regulators have banned financial institutions from using Bitcoin, warning that the virtual currency could be used for illegal activities and speculation.

Yet the quick moves have stoked some speculation that Kodak is moving to take advantage of the buzz around blockchain, particularly among publicly - traded companies that have seen their financial fortunes soar thanks to investor hunger for anything touching the tech.

However I really blame de-regulators, and the financial industry for the international speculation on mortgages.