Sentences with phrase «from financial speculation»

The corollary is that other countries» balance - of - payments surpluses do not stem primarily from trade relations, but from financial speculation and a spillover of U.S. global military spending.

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Retail investors in the US are mostly barred from using them, but in Europe, they represent the final frontier of highly risky, lightly overseen financial speculation, Bloomberg says.

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...

Quantitative easing subsidizes U.S. capital flight, pushing up non-dollar currency exchange rates Quantitative easing may not have set out to disrupt the global trade and financial system or start a round of currency speculation, but that is the result of the Fed's decision in 2008 to keep unpayably high debts from defaulting by re-inflating U.S. real estate and financial markets.

In previous German governing coalitions, the country's finance minister has traditionally been provided by the second - largest party in the coalition — in the current negotiations, the FDP — so there was also speculation that prevailing German political opinion was likely to become more resistant to any future proposals from fellow EU members to reform the region's financial markets through a mutual underwriting of eurozone debt.

The fact that the financial markets feel wonderful right now is precisely because yield - seeking speculation and monetary distortions have raised security prices today to levels where they are likely to stand years from today — with steep roller - coaster rides in the interim.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

The Asian financial crisis of 1998 happened because the law ignored bankruptcy issues, which was caused by investors pulling out funds from inaccurate speculation.

Bluestone and Harrison believe that the essential problem with the U.S. economy can be traced to the way capital — in the form of financial resources as well as plants and equipment — «has been diverted from productive investment in our basic national industries into unproductive speculation, mergers, acquisitions, and foreign investment.

Nevertheless, it's not enough to stop the speculation that will start flying around now, as ultimately he has been linked with every club in Europe with the financial strength to potentially prise him away from the Bernabeu.

This imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation.»

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.

Informed speculation suggests that Beutner has the easiest path to a four - vote majority, and the core of that support would come from the four - member board majority elected with major financial backing from charter school advocates.

It is human nature in our modern day capitalistic society to assume that making a lot of money from relatively little work is simply not possible, which is generally true out side of the world of financial speculation.

This could potentially lead to the smaller unregulated entities being excluded from certain lucrative European market places, with there being much speculation that the UK's Financial Services Authority may be the first to regulate the provision of social and mirror trading services.

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

«Speculation is the practice of engaging in risky financial transactions in an attempt to profit from short or medium term 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.»

«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.»

The majority of the trade is carried out not between polluting industries and factories covered by carbon trading schemes, but by banks and investors who profit from speculation on the carbon markets - packaging carbon credits into increasingly complex financial products similar to the «shadow finance» around sub-prime mortgages which triggered the recent economic crash.

The foundation of the tulip bubble formed in the Netherlands was a direct result of overheated speculation from investors blinded by financial gains.

Bitcoin Price Soars to Record High Pricing Above $ 5000 In spite of all the speculations, regulations and several heads of top financial institutions talking against the cryptocurrency wave, it seems there is nothing that is stopping investors from buying Bitcoins.

Retail investors in the US are mostly barred from using them, but in Europe, they represent the final frontier of highly risky, lightly overseen financial speculation, Bloomberg says.

HTC has received multiple inquiries from the press regarding the trading freeze that it issues an official response to the «HTC might announce the sale to Google» speculation on its financial site with a standard «HTC does not comment on market rumor or speculation.»

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