Sentences with phrase «taking speculative positions»

The Volcker Rule prohibits banks from taking speculative positions on bonds or other securities — thereby preventing banks from purchasing large blocks of securities and holding them until a buyer is located.

He added: «When a businessman takes a speculative position in compromising his wife's claims, why should the court subsequently relieve him of the consequences of his speculation by rewriting the bargain at his behest?

Not exact matches

Financial services group Nordea, which banned its employees from engaging in off - the - clock cryptocurrency trading earlier this year, said at the time that financial institutions often «restrict the personal account dealing of staff to prevent them taking positions in speculative investments, or which might expose them to a risk of financial loss and therefore impact their financial standing.»

Note that what I refer to as the total speculative net position takes into account the net positions of large speculators (non-commercials) and small traders (the «non-reportables») and is the inverse of the commercial net position.

As noted in the earlier post, what I refer to as the total speculative net position takes into account the net positions of large speculators (non-commercials) and small traders (the «non-reportables») and is the inverse of the commercial net position.

For example, participants who wish to take a speculative or hedging position in the S&P 500 futures contract but can not risk the exposure of that size contract ($ 250 x the S&P 500) can instead use the E-mini S&P 500 futures contract to gain that exposure ($ 50 x the S&P 500 Index).

As such, there is a strong chance that the inflow of speculative buy activity that comes about as a result of barriers to entry into the market being removed will outweigh the impact of bitcoin futures allowing certain parties to take up short side positions on the asset's future.

The company suggests that investors could use its lending capacity to «hedge total portfolio risk or take speculative short positions,» but it also envisions other use cases for the service.