Sentences with phrase «in financial speculation»

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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.

«We have to recover the public sector, we have to scare the free market out of our pensions, education, health care, and culture, and let the cooperative social sector come in and combat the casino economy of capitalism and financial speculation.»

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.

As the financial markets opened this morning in New York, speculation that President Trump will pursue more business - friendly policies has offset the fear of the unknown with the S&P 500 Index rising as a surge in health - care shares offset losses in consumer and technology companies.

The Dodd - Frank financial reform law, passed by Washington in the wake of the financial crisis, does call on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to clamp down on excessive speculation in futures markets.

The financial sector, large and small, is doing great in terms of profitability (and that's before all their goodies in the tax cuts), credit is freely flowing, and while there's always speculation afoot in financial markets, there are no large and potentially destabilizing credit bubbles.

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...

Canada has also asked that companies be given WTO enforceable rights to trade in derivatives, which has been described as a high - octane form of financial speculation similar to gambling.

After all, why should businessmen invest in hiring more labor to work in factories, when they can make higher rates of return by financial maneuvering and currency speculation?

Just as real estate lending fuels land speculation, so the withdrawal of such credit leaves property markets to decline, sometimes with a crash, as occurred in Japan after 1990 when its financial bubble burst.

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.

Michael writes on currency speculation in today's Financial Times - Capital controls will follow the weak dollar.

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.

Separately, the China Financial Futures Exchange said on Wednesday it would take further steps to curb excessive speculation in stock index futures trading, in its second tightening of rules in days.

As Adair Turner shows in his new book, Between Debt and the Devil, private sector debt soared as a share of GDP in most advanced economies after the 1980s, fuelling unproductive, debt financed household consumption, housing bubbles and wasteful financial 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.»

A clear improvement in our measures of market internals would defer the immediacy of that concern, and would also create an environment where monetary easing would tend to support speculation in the financial markets.

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.

As Silver Lake Partners» Genn Hutchins pointed out to the Financial Times in a recent interview when making the distinction between the recent pure currency speculation and the promise of the underlying technology benefits

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 debIn 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 debin 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 debin 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.

BlackRock Inc's (BLK.N) global chief investment strategist on Tuesday suggested that loose monetary policy may have aided speculation in digital currencies like bitcoin, but he said the risk to the broader financial system appears limited.

Michael writes on currency speculation in today's Financial Times — Capital controls will follow the weak dollar.

Banks now lend mainly to other financial institutions, hedge funds, corporate raiders, insurance companies and real estate, and engage in their own speculation in foreign currency, interest - rate arbitrage, and computer - driven trading programs.

First, regardless of short - term speculation, the present yield - seeking speculative extreme is likely to be seen in hindsight as one of the three most reckless financial bubbles in U.S. history, on par with the 1929 and 2000 extremes.

«Ongoing speculation and fear - mongering about a banking inquiry or royal commission is disruptive and risks undermining the reputation of Australia's world - class financial system,» Turnbull said in a statement.

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.

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.

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.

We must, in particular, re-regulate and impose a tax on financial operations in order to discourage pure speculation.

And then there is the game in the stock exchanges of the financial markets, global speculation, more than 2,000 billion dollars is exchanged every day and scarcely 5 % represents the real economy.

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.

«How can we ignore the fact that food has become an object of speculation or is connected to movements in a financial market that, lacking in clear rules and moral principles, seems anchored on the sole objective of profit,» he asked the audience.

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.

Rowett though, says that despite the speculation, the Championship club are in a sound financial situation and are not in a position where they have to sell him to raise funds.

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.

Questions about Inter's mercato spending have raised speculation about their situation in UEFA's Financial Fair Play guidelines.

There are strong speculations that the French playmaker could exit the team with decreasing confidence in his abilities by the coach Jose Mourinho but then the huge financial investment in him is a major hindrance.

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.

Between New York state spending $ 750 million dollars on a new solar panel factory in South Buffalo, SolarCity's financial struggles, and this week's expected shareholders vote on a proposed merger with Tesla, there has been a lot of speculation lately about Solar City's long term viability.

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 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.

This new spike is due to weather - related crop losses in Russia, Australia and Pakistan, high oil prices and financial speculation.

In July, Andelman announced that Colette would close after 20 years, spurring industry speculation regarding the store's financial health and the owner's next move.

As the novel moves between war and peace, Spain and London, its large cast of characters includes the serial adulterer and war hero the Duke of Wellington, and the émigrés Nathan Rothschild and Frederic Winsor who will usher in the future, creating a world brightly lit by gaslight where credit and financial speculation rule.

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.

Edward Chancellor, author of an excellent book on past financial manias called Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (my review is available here), believes that investors will be grappling in the future with the bursting of a bubble, this time financial manias called Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (my review is available here), believes that investors will be grappling in the future with the bursting of a bubble, this time Financial Speculation (my review is available here), believes that investors will be grappling in the future with the bursting of a bubble, this time in China.

The Fed can manufacture financial speculation easily, but has a harder time encouraging investment in plant and equipment.