SPECULATORS: Helping copper's move higher were speculators abandoning short positions, analysts said.
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The data here show how large speculators, small speculators and commercial hedgers are investing around gold.
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Every week, the CFTC measures the net long or net short positions of large speculators, small speculators and companies buying and selling oil futures.
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It depicts the net long or net short positions of large speculators, or professional money managers, small speculators, or individual investors, and commercial hedgers, or companies that buy oil futures contracts.
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Savvy speculators with whitepapers offer mom-and-pops investment opportunities in vaporware, which could wipe out savings and wealth in much the same way the Russian voucher-speculators did, if left unchecked.
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Markets took China at its word and went into free fall as speculators, not least Chinese speculators, targeted the metals complex as a proxy for darkening growth prospects, not least Chinese growth prospects.
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It's not just copper that is being punished by speculators.
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Speculators also trimmed net U.S. dollar longs to $3.01 billion.
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But conversely, the central bank's inaction only emboldens the speculators.
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Similarly, speculators are struggling with their bets on the dollar.
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He warned speculators against pushing up the currency too rapidly.
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Even for speculators, business is less brisk than it seems.
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But it looks like speculators might ride the rollercoaster again.
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Speculators have been short the pound since November last year.
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Speculators have also cut bets in favor of the dollar.
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Extensive capital controls remain intact, limiting speculators' room for manoeuvre.
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"This is what they do, they're professional speculators," he said.
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"We must discipline the speculators in the market," he said.
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Speculators were short the dollar for a second straight week.
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Traders said some speculators were unwinding bets and booking profits.
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The bear fund was very popular with individual Japanese speculators.
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That intervention has, for now, chased away most of the speculators.
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Still, hedge funds and other large speculators aren't taking any chances.
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As for speculators, they might just know a thing or two.
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Determined speculators, Mr Danielsson fears, will always find a way in.
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Nevertheless, Erdogan frequently blames foreign "speculators" for sending the lira sprawling.
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Speculators tweaked their positions in Treasury futures from a week earlier.
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The longer the dollar treads water, the twitchier speculators will become.
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Does this represent a sinister move by speculators to undermine democracy?
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Late last year speculators sent the price of crypto-currencies soaring.
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And speculators are circling the neighborhoods close to the HQ2 site.
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Speculators are needed to take the other side of the bet.
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This was taken as a cue by speculators to take profits.
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Further explanation wasn't provided, leaving those factors a mystery for speculators.
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But for speculators, the price gains this year are eye-watering.
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The futures market showed speculators bet on the dollar deteriorating further.
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Instead, they were supplied to speculators as loans to buy shares.
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Sanders is most aggressive against Wall Street generally and speculators specifically.
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Speculators have been net short the dollar for 11 straight weeks.
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Lifestyle feature writers and real estate speculators further publicized the place.
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He worries that speculators will move in, destroying the neighborhood's character.
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One factor driving speculators into the property market is moribund stocks.
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Speculators have cut bullish bets on the dollar in recent weeks.
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Speculators were net short U.S. dollars for a third straight week.
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"We have been a nation of land speculators," Ms. Trounstine said.
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The winners in this environment are speculators with lots of cash.
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The whiff of the bar's distress attracts speculators ready to buy.
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Often speculators buy houses with the express idea of stripping them.
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Singapore is not short of policy tools to ward off speculators.
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They crossed beneath trees carved with the names of land speculators.
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But this year speculators have not had things all their own way.
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While the measures are aimed at speculators, genuine buyers, too, are caught.
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Additionally, few speculators appear likely to be forced to sell, Goldman said.
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Still, tension soon flared with land speculators, bankers and domineering plantation-owners.
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It also prompted the biggest ever shift in speculators' "low vol" bets.
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Some saw their homes foreclosed upon and quickly snapped up by speculators.
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But as we've seen time and time again, CRT speculators inevitably fail.
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Of course, the role of speculators in commodities is an old story.
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But since speculators love them, they are not likely to disappear either.
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Of course, speculators and the media do frequently overreact to bad news.
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The PBOC has acted aggressively to deter speculators from shorting the yuan.
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This was taken as a cue by the speculators to take profits.
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Bitcoin rallied more than 1,000 percent last year as speculators piled in.
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The only unhappy people are the ticket brokers and the ticket speculators.
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The readiness to push prices higher by speculators is also pretty limited.
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Authorities have also introduced steps to discourage speculators from shorting the yuan.
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The majority of the new buyers these days are speculators, he said.
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The change, Knight Frank said, was because of an exodus of speculators.
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Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci, speaking to the news channel NTV, blamed speculators.
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Speculators' net long U.S. dollar positions fell to an eight-week low.
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And it's always good for investors and speculators to have more options.
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Law enforcement officials cracked down on rogue ranchers, loggers and land speculators.
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The "emperor" stock boost isn't the first such play by Chinese speculators.
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Chinese speculators pounced on stocks with "emperor" in their name on Monday.
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"Speculators continued to increase their net long in ICE Brent ... According to exchange data, speculators increased their position by 4,175 lots to leave them with a record net long of 565,459 lots," ING bank said in a note.
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This could potentially give speculators more room to take positions against the dirham.
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But you can see why hedge funds and speculators are shorting the dollar.
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A market less in thrall to speculators might seem like an unalloyed boon.
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Speculators cut their short positions against the pound in the week to Aug.
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I don't mean financial value to speculators; I mean utility value to users.
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And I'm not blaming the Wall Street guys, because look out, they're speculators.
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Colombia is no longer just a place for adventurers, speculators and risk-takers.
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Pot speculators are hoping to capitalize on a new gold rush in California.
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This is an old story, the role of speculators in the commodity business.
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Speculators raised their bullish bets on oil to record levels in recent weeks.
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HM: Most of the folks that I interact with are investors, not speculators.
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They attract low-quality, short-term speculators, the famed investor has long argued.
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Much activity focused on second- or third-tier stocks favoured by local speculators.
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Speculators are short metals across the LME board, according to broker Marex Spectron.
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This shows speculators are positioning for higher U.S. interest rates and bond yields.
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Speculators held a net long position of 9,337 ULSD futures and options contracts.
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Such a lack of uniformity has kept speculators heavily active in crypto trading.
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Speculators, Soros said, would be eager to exploit a Brexit situation to profit.
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Speculators raised their net long bets on the U.S. dollar to $6.62 billion.
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Speculators trimmed their bullish dollar bets for a fourth straight week through Jan.
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Speculators' moves in the soy complex through April 30 were not very dramatic.
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Speculators in digital currency are snapping up G.P.U.s for a very different purpose.
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Speculators are increasing their bets on Mr. Trump's impeachment, The Financial Times noted.
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They could have given them preference over absentee landlords and Wall Street speculators.
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And that's exactly how hedge funds and speculators appear to be playing it.
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We want to make a statement that speculators are not welcome in Oakland.
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Speculators' net shorts in fed funds had been hovering close to record highs.
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Small entrepreneurs are at the mercy of money-grubbing landlords and property speculators.
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Just enough to send speculators into a frenzy ahead of the big debut.
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Property stocks eased after major cities imposed new property curbs to deter speculators.
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Speculators upped their bullish positions in COMEX gold in the week to Dec.
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Speculators cut bullish wagers on U.S. crude in the week to July 30, while bearish wagers rose to their highest since February, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday However, speculators increased their bullish positions in Brent futures.
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It was thus an opportunity for speculators to buy the euro without much concern.
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XRP attracted speculators, rising to a high of $3.84 in January of last year.
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Speculators remain massively short bonds and the market is going to squeeze them out.
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Speculators increased net long Brent positions to 418,912 contracts in the week to Aug.
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Last year, speculators roiled those trading items ranging from rubber and eggs to steel.
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Trading iron ore and steel has become a two-step dance for Chinese speculators.
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The issue with predicting demand, though, is the existence of speculators creating artificial demand.
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Second, speculators are also long oil, and oil is very important for emerging markets.
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It is also not clear whether long-term investors or speculators dumped Glencore stock.
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But more speculators are jumping in, and any reversals could be sudden and violent.
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The OPEC deal has given speculators impetus to increase bets on higher oil prices.
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Speculators cut their bullish positions in COMEX gold contracts in the week to Aug.
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The relentless price rises, in turn, have lured speculators, whose enthusiasm compounds the problem.
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Speculators usually don't care if oil — or any other commodity — goes up or down.
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THE GLOBAL RECESSION TRADE It's not just copper that is being punished by speculators.
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As a rule, the lower stocks are, the higher the premium speculators should demand.
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It remains to be seen if speculators will be frozen out this time around.
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I've got a feeling it's speculators leading the way on this one, as well.
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Whether this trend continues may depend on what hedge funds and speculators do next.
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OPEC cannot control demand, it cannot control shale rivals and certainly cannot control speculators.
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This leaves speculators and funds as the only buyers in town, in our opinion.
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U.S. natural gas speculators cut their net long positions in the week to Aug.
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Speculators cut bets in favor of the dollar through August, but the U.S. currency .
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Officials in big cities have also made it harder for speculators to buy homes.
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Short-covering rallies are always possible when speculators build up such large short positions.
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Speculators began to unwind short dollar bets, which had swollen to multi-year highs.
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Lipinski complained, several times, about speculators who were "manipulating" the price of the credits.
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Speculators began to unwind short dollar bets, which had grown to multi-year highs.
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Some listed firms in China even took advantage of speculators' preference for sexy names.
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Speculators slashed bullish bets on the dollar for a sixth straight week through Feb.
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That marked the first time speculators raised their net long position in eight weeks.
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"It's important to us that we aren't selling to real-estate speculators," Strickland said.
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Those steps targeted at speculators in the biggest cities appear to be paying dividends.
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Imploring speculators to rescue the market could set the stage for trouble, he added.
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Volkswagen has tried to portray the Braunschweig case as a crusade by greedy speculators.
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"The Trump administration is allowing speculators to lease public land for pennies," she said.
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Speculators, however, trimmed record high bets against the pound in the week ended Aug.
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On the other hand, you speculators and short-term investors are on your own.
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Speculators increased their bullish positions on COMEX gold in the week to Feb. 11.
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"We want speculators out of our community," she said in an interview on Monday.
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The Australian dollar bounced modestly as speculators took profits on long U.S. dollar positions.
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Speculators also cut their bullish positions in COMEX gold in the week to Nov.
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Speculators increased positive bets on the greenback for a third straight week through Dec.
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Clearly, if speculators think something is more interesting, that may drive the value higher.
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A week earlier, speculators held 622,422 net short positions in 2975-year T-note futures.
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But volatility also looks certain, with speculators ramping up on both bullish and bearish wagers.
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In recent weeks, higher-than-expected inventory figures had prompted speculators to unwind long positions.
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Speculators raised their holdings of Brent crude oil futures to a record high last week.
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The greenback may not fall as far or as fast as speculators are banking on.
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This was the first time gold speculators have held a net short position since December.
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A week earlier, speculators held 24,364 net short positions in 10-year T-note futures.
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Speculators, Espenilla said, are using the reduction as a factor that could dampen the peso.
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A week earlier, speculators held 99,922 net long positions in 10-year T-note futures.
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Crowds don't always get things right and in this case your crowd may be speculators.
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Garner reviewed the large speculators, because it indicates what big institutional money managers are doing.
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Speculators flipped back to a bearish stance on Minneapolis-traded spring wheat through March 20.
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Already, banks have jacked up mortgage rates on interest-only loans - popular with property speculators.
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A week earlier, speculators held 375,736 net short positions in 10-year T-note futures.
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And, though the PDA looks very real to us, speculators on Twitter aren't buying it.
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Buyers believe they must cover early, attracting speculators to pile into the market as well.
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Speculators and physical buyers have pushed prices on the LME up 21% within two weeks.
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Speculators slashed bullish bets on the U.S. dollar for a sixth straight week through Feb.
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Traders said that industrial consumers and speculators buying to reverse bearish positions spurred the recovery.
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But here, the original ending gives speculators more fuel in the form of more information.
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Speculators have been an integral part of the oil market for 15 or 20 years.
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Hedge funds and speculators hold the most long bets on VIX futures since late September.
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Funds, speculators and money market traders are betting on the lower end, and little wonder.
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A week earlier, speculators held 684,712 net short positions in 10-year T-note futures.
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Speculators raised their bullish stance in gold and silver in the week to July 16.
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That prohibits it from lending stocks to speculators for a fee as many rivals do.
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Investors and speculators are still focused on building new applications — not on introducing Ethereum ATMs.
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It often works best, he says, when speculators are positioned heavily in the opposite direction.
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Mr Mugabe has long blamed his country's economic woes on speculators, traitors, imperialists and homosexuals.
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The currency is still primarily traded by speculators and hasn't found an established application yet.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Speculators are sticking to their bearish bets on the dollar and U.S. Treasuries.
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It was also the second straight week speculators reduced their net longs on the dollar.
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POSITIONING: Speculators were neutral in LME copper as of Tuesday, according to brokers Marex Spectron.
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As speculators unwind their trades, they convert yuan back to dollars as the pattern reverses.
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Speculators' bets on the Japanese yen swung to a net short position of 2,767 contracts.
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Nearly half of that was a $7.7 bln reduction in speculators' net short euro position.
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A week earlier, speculators held 305,212 net short positions in 10-year T-note futures.
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Volkswagen shares were plunging, and speculators began betting that the carmaker's price would fall further.
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Speculators have been running short positions across the board, according to LME broker Marex Spectron.
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A week earlier, speculators held 261,245 net long positions in 10-year T-note futures.
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The springs have a long, fuzzy history of enchanting speculators and generations of wealthy families.
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But the contracts also give speculators a way to bet on how prices will move.
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Speculators raised their bullish positions in COMEX gold contracts in the week to Dec. 24.
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Others focused on funding speculators who inflated asset bubbles from real estate to egg futures.
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Then, in the 1990s, after the collapse of Communism, speculators rushed in and construction boomed.
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"It shows the pure evilness of speculators," Walker said in response to the Wedgewood statement.
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"This chart shows you that the big-money speculators are pretty darned negative," Cramer said.
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If speculators are struggling with their Treasuries trades, they're having better luck with the dollar.
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A third proposal promoted by Cruz would cut Wall Street speculators out of the market.
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Speculators have responded by boosting positions against the dollar to record levels in recent months.
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Bank of Israel Governor, Karnit Flug, referred to speculators in a speech earlier this month.
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Aluminium touched the weakest since August last year as speculators piled on more bearish positions.
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Erdogan accused currency speculators, and Ankara's military opponents of trying to "divide and destroy" Turkey.
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Put simply, the strategy appears aimed at defending the currency from attack by market speculators.
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Speculators slashed their bullish positions in COMEX gold contracts in the week to Dec. 10.
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Some have called for a flipping tax to curb speculators from buying and selling houses.
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Speculators' bets on the Japanese yen swung to a net short position of 1,405 contracts.
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"For speculators, the relationship is like opponents in a game," Zhou told financial magazine Caixin.
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Currency speculators reduced their bets on the dollar for a fourth straight week through Aug.
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Speculators increased their bullish positions in COMEX gold and silver in the week to Nov.
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Similar to the previous week, speculators were both buyers and sellers of hard red winter wheat.
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SPECULATORS: Positioning by speculative investors in LME copper was largely neutral, brokers at Marex Spectron said.
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Large speculators cut their net long position in CBOT corn futures in the week ended Aug.
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KS: And it will be the companies, not the bitcoin speculators, that will make them money.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - First, Chinese speculators came for coking coal and iron ore, catapulting markets into orbit.
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Likewise, speculators in the dot-com bubble foresaw how the internet would profoundly change our lives.
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A week earlier, speculators held 229,119 net long positions in 10-year T-note futures 1CFTC11.
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Speculators have also ramped up bearish bets on the loonie to the most since February 20183.
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Speculators also appeared to be venturing into smaller markets that have more relaxed housing purchase policies.
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Or do we stand with Wall Street speculators and the drug companies and the insurance companies?
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This is clearly the work of speculators who were long oil who are now unwinding positions.
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To ward off speculators, notorious in Chinese markets, they made the storage of oil very expensive.
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In the absence of that, speculators will just have to buckle up and enjoy the ride.
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The danger, then, is that a sudden pickup in volatility could result in speculators suffering losses.
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Speculators in the week to April 11 also increased bets on strong performance in both contracts.
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Still, hedge funds and other speculators have been betting the peso has more room to run.
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"We are seeing speculators run for cover," said Scott Smith, managing partner at Viewpoint Investment Partners.
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Speculators' bets on sterling swung to a net short position in the latest week, data showed.
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"You can only assume that it's another example of trying to wrong foot speculators," he said.
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Similar to the week before, some speculators are still hesitant to abandon the long corn position.
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Data showed speculators extended their net COMEX gold short positions in the week to Oct. 9.
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Then as you begin to rally, speculators pile in and it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle.
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The speculators of the world will provide reserves more effectively than any governmentally established clearing union.
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Beyond the candy speculators, people are trying to hold onto a piece of their youth, Candyfavorites.
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Gold speculators raised their net long position by 50,996 contracts to 172,834 contracts, CFTC data showed.
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If the speculators are correct, the May price will fall even further relative to April's price.
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One trader, however, says bullion is being pressured more from speculators and investors abandoning their positions.
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With nothing but a cryptic caption to go on, it sent speculators into a guessing frenzy.
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Meanwhile, speculators could see a re-test of the all-time futures contract low of $5,970.
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Chinese state media on Tuesday warned Soros and other "vicious" speculators against betting on yuan falls.
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Speculators may be taking a longer-term view of copper's prospects than the next few months.
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Real estate speculators sold off all their land and no longer cared about the transit connections.
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With the volatility of bitcoin, it's still primarily just used as a trading tool for speculators.
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Large speculators increased their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week ended Sept.
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Large speculators increased their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to Feb.
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Speculators are betting that these companies will eventually plug their software into the broader Ethereum network.
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Large speculators increased their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to Oct.
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Large speculators increased their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to Dec.
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Speculators slashed their bullish positions in COMEX gold contracts in the week to Dec. 10. ounce.
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Large speculators trimmed their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to Oct.
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Large speculators trimmed their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to Feb.
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Speculators increased their bullish positions in COMEX gold and silver contracts in the week to Dec.
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Options on bitcoin futures will likely be a great tool for speculators in the cryptocurrency space.
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Large speculators increased their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to Jan.
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Large speculators trimmed their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to Dec.
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"Speculators are booking capital gains while long-term investors were dormant," said a Jeddah-based broker.
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Meanwhile, speculators increased their net short position in COMEX gold contracts in the week to Sept.
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Speculators also cut net long U.S. crude futures and options positions in the week to Feb.
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Distressed speculators took their lives, leading to a large rise in the number of reported suicides.
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While none of the speculators had any solid evidence, many who followed celebrity gossip suspected something.
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Few exchanges in the West lend bitcoin to traders, making the Asian venues popular with speculators.
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However, the latest data showed that speculators are continuing to move into smaller cities with fewer controls.
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Speculators boosted net long positions in the euro to a record high for the week ending Jan.
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Speculators in the crude oil market now have record long positions, according to Commitment of Traders data.
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Many speculators ruled out New York City early on for lack of space and already-challenging congestion.
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Therefore, the bitcoin will become digital gold, a staid, boring and volatility proof safe haven for speculators.
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The speculators also cut their net short positions in CBOT soybean and wheat futures, the data showed.
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Garner found that when oil peaked in June, large speculators accumulated a position of 2743,000 futures contracts.
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Speculators cut their net long positions in COMEX gold and silver contracts in the week to Aug.
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Speculators were net long dollars for an eighth straight week, after being net short for 2390.50 weeks.
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Speculators' net short position on bitcoin Cboe futures rose to 1,907 contracts in the week to Jan.
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The latest CFTC data shows speculators' short bets against the VIX outnumber longs nearly 2.5 to 1.
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Speculators who believe markets will stay calm can sell (or "write") options on volatility, earning premium income.
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Whether hedge funds and speculators believe a slowdown or even recession is around the corner is immaterial.
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U.S. government data last week showed that gold speculators had lifted their bearish bets to a record.
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That led speculators to unwind some of their bets on a cut in interest rates this year.
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Local speculators bid for 625 times the shares on offer, tying up $67 billion in the process.
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Speculators were net long dollars for a second consecutive week, after being short for 48 straight weeks.
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Chinese speculators are surging into the Shanghai Futures Exchange contract, which is also nudging one-year highs.
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Brent crude speculators cut net long positions by 1,27 contracts to 360,785 in the week to Oct.
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Speculators also cut their net long positions in U.S. heating oil to the lowest since mid-July.
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Speculators who trade on technical signals regard a break below key moving averages as a bearish sign.
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Data on Friday showed speculators reduced their net long positions in gold for a third straight week.
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Data on Friday showed speculators reduced their net long positions in gold for a third straight week. .
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Traders said margin calls added to the pressure, especially in smaller-capital stocks favoured by local speculators.
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Speculators were net long dollars for a fifth straight week, after being short for 48 consecutive weeks.
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In corn, speculators have essentially reached the historical high for short positions for the time of year.
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But speculators seem to have a renewed interest in soyoil after a record selloff to open October.
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For the first time in more than three years, speculators have turned net long on the yen.
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Speculators have also increased to a record high their bets on gains in the price of Brent.
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Provincial capitals started to join in the fray last summer as speculators flooded into tier-two cities.
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Speculators in China's volatile financial markets, already prone to producing bubbles, ran up the price of coal.
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Speculators also stepped up bullish bets in CBOT soybean meal, as Argentina is the world's leading supplier.
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But resilient local demand, a land shortage, fewer speculators and higher down payments might pad this downturn.
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Speculators were net long dollars for a sixth straight week, after being short for 48 consecutive weeks.
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Speculators cut their net long positions in COMEX gold and silver contracts in the week to Sept.
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However, much of the rise was due to short-term speculators and funds in China, traders said.
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Speculators are piling into the cryptocurrency space in the hopes of–sometimes very literally–making money fast.
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I believe that this has sped adoption among young speculators first starting out with lower dollar figures.
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Sanders proposes a free public college education, paid for by a transaction tax on Wall Street speculators.
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On the edge of town, mansions erected by land speculators are popping up alongside the sand dunes.
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Speculators have guessed the planes could be involved in spying activities or testing out a space weapon.
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It's not just that speculators want to hear such stories: Wall Street is incentivised to circulate them.
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"It had become a vicious circle," said Mr. Pejman, who acknowledges having been one of those speculators.
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It just means speculators on a certain bundle of stocks are more optimistic than they were before.
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Almost immediately, speculators pounced, setting off a property buying frenzy and sending shares of construction companies soaring.
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But speculators turned on zinc earlier than any of the other metals and they've pushed it harder.
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Speculators currently have a record net-long position on the market, with bullish bets outweighing bearish ones.
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The cards arrived at the tail end of the lunch hour and no professional speculators showed up.
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Speculators boosted net long positions in the euro to a record high in the week to Jan.
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Speculators recently cut their net long position in COMEX gold to the weakest position since January 2016.
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)China is warning speculators betting against its currency to prepare for a fight.
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A trader said the White House comments sparked short covering after speculators had earlier extended bearish positions.
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This is true of all exchanges but maybe particularly true of China where speculators hunt in packs.
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However, the latest moves in the price suggest there could be a brighter outlook ahead for speculators.
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Futures markets signalled speculators last week built the most bearish positioning against the dollar since mid-October.
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Oil market speculators added to bullish bets last week, however, showing they were more optimistic about higher prices.
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The contracts were aimed at making it easier for investors and speculators to trade the new asset class.
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At that time, the government largely blamed the crash on "malicious" short-selling by domestic and foreign "speculators".
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Some market players think speculators were ready to sell the yuan again as soon as Beijing stops intervening.
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Many institutional investors are sceptical of the stock, which has long been a favourite of local individual speculators.
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As for speculators who hope to get rich by mining asteroids, those companies are still in their infancy.
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First of all, speculators are now long in their short-term positioning of emerging market currencies and equities.
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Insurance stocks favoured by local retail speculators also surged on Tuesday, with Al Rajhi Takaful up 3.9 percent.
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As volatility has subsided, so has the ability of large speculators to profit from betting on currency moves.
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Then again, maybe the massed ranks of Chinese speculators just haven't been thinking much about copper at all.
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He was proposing regressive taxes (mostly tariffs and excise taxes) in order to give money to rich speculators.
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Private-equity firms and real estate speculators with cash offers are outbidding homebuyers, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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The cuts marked the second consecutive week in which speculators cut their net long positions in the market.
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Most hybrid vehicles — a category that speculators are betting will grow from its presently modest base — burn gasoline.
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Speculators also raised net short contracts on the Japanese yen for the ninth straight week to 87,009 contracts.
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The share of interest-only loans, favoured by speculators, was as high as 40% (it has since fallen).
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Last week it fell to $2647.80,193, its lowest since early June as speculators cut bets on higher prices.
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Chances of a rate cut this year are a little less than 20 percent, according to market speculators.
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The loonie's recovery in 2019 has come amid evidence speculators hiked bearish bets on the currency in December.
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Nevertheless, speculators against the riyal know there is a precedent for Riyadh to tinker with the exchange rate.
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They can also be traded by speculators; investors hope that successful projects will cause tokens' value to rise.
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One of those speculators is Todd, who wished to remain anonymous in order to disclose personal financial details.
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Bitcoin has since become the preferred currency not only of libertarians and speculators, but also of criminal hackers.
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Analysts say the decline in oil was also accelerated by the rush of speculators out of long positions.
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Losses deepened in European afternoon trading as technical levels were hit, spurring further selling by speculators, traders said.
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Some currency speculators will make large profits and others will make large losses once the result is revealed.
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In turn, specialist speculators blamed an influx of "hedge funds" and technical "black box" traders for worsening volatility.
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Some second- and third-tier shares favoured by local speculators surged, with property developer Alandalus jumping 3.3 percent.
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Speculators slashed their bullish bets in COMEX gold in the week to April 2, data showed on Friday.
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Speculators have pulled back on heavy bets on an oil rally, a process that continued Tuesday, traders said.
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Hedge funds and other speculators had a record long position in crude futures as recently as late January.
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Speculators are increasingly betting on a rise in Brent crude prices, weekly data from the InterContinental Exchange showed.
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Speculators were net long dollars for an eighth straight week, after being net short for 48 conecutive weeks.
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Among refined products, speculators also trimmed their net long positions in U.S. gasoline and ultra low sulfur diesel.
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Back then, early speculators in Bitcoin, flush with newfound crypto-fortune, plunged their money back into emerging cryptocurrencies.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Speculators extended bearish bets in Chicago-traded grain futures and options in the week ended Oct.
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But setting up and verifying REDD+ is too complicated, expensive and stringent for speculators to make easy money.
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U.S. government data out last week showed that gold speculators had lifted their bearish bets to a record.
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In 2017 the currency's price rose from $2003,000 to nearly $20,000, yielding profits for speculators and miners alike.
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Funds and speculators have been growing increasingly bearish on the pound since April, when it traded above $21.
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"But the rebalancing process is still in its infancy and speculators want to position for that," he added.
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He added that interventions should be restricted to counter abnormal moves that are regarded as created by speculators.
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This became a self-fulfilling prophecy, as more speculators rushed in and bought more coal when prices rose.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Speculators axed a massive short position in the corn market within 11 days earlier this month.
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Similarly, don't prey on speculators expecting your coin offering to appreciate simply by virtue of being a coin.
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FOR SOME REASON THE EPA AND THEIR GREAT WISDOM DECIDED TO LET THIRD PARTIES SPECULATORS BUY THESE RINs.
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The CFTC data showed speculators cut yen net longs to 45,000 contracts from roughly 70,000 the prior week.
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In a separate report, Intercontinental Exchange Inc said speculators trimmed positions in Brent in the week to Jan.
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Regulators intensified the crackdown on speculators by rolling out more draconian measures in big cities from late March.
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A third is that the crypto1 space is just a casino for speculators with no real underlying value.
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As such, the trade news may have stopped the speculators' selling but perhaps only for the time being.
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Gundlach said the one-sided wager from speculators could lead to a "monumental short squeeze" if yields fall.
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Speculators raised their net long bets on U.S. natural gas by 230,30 contracts in the week to Aug.
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Streetcars and early subways were paid for by wealthy financiers, real estate speculators, and electric companies, among others.
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Lopez Obrador urged the safeguarding of the country's international reserves and warned against the risk of currency speculators.
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"There were a lot of speculators," said Han Changlong, a Nanjing real estate inspector who attended the event.
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Speculators have ignored repeated warnings by the automotive air conditioner maker, who said the price surge defied fundamentals.
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But in 1888, the blizzard caused coal prices to soar, due to high demand and price gouging speculators.
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Speculators drove up prices for works fresh from the studio, then sold them almost immediately for record prices.
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Lopez Obrador urged the safeguarding of the country's international reserves and warned against the risk of currency speculators.
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Scientists and activists blame Bolsonaro's development plans in the Amazon for emboldening illegal loggers, ranchers and land speculators.
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Scientists and activists blame Bolsonaro's development plans in the Amazon for emboldening illegal loggers, ranchers and land speculators.
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As result, speculators who used cryptocurrency for money laundering or capital flight have prompted governments to start regulating.
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Speculators had cut bullish bets on the U.S. dollar in recent weeks on reduced Fed rate hike expectations.
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The values of many coins introduced in the last year have skyrocketed as speculators have entered the market.
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And speculators own the rights to many millions of other names, hoping to resell them for big payouts.
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A plan for national rent control and for reining in speculators, but also for building wealth through homeownership.
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He said he was acting on behalf of long-term shareholders and not short-term speculators like CIAM.
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Funds and speculators have been growing increasingly bearish on the pound since April, when it traded above $220.
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Speculators raised net long bets on the dollar to a five-week high in the week to Nov.
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Speculators were net long dollars for a fourth consecutive week, after being net short for 48 straight weeks.
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In a separate report, Intercontinental Exchange Inc said speculators raised positions in Brent in the week to Jan.
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The CFTC data showed speculators cut yen net longs to 45,000 contracts from roughly 70,000 the week before.
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Together, large and small speculators are holding a net short position of 800,000 10-year Treasury futures contracts.
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Speculators were net long on dollars for the 22nd straight week, after being short for 48 consecutive weeks.
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China has been imposing controls across the country to rein in rocketing property prices, often fueled by speculators.
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In addition, developers and speculators must not reap profits from these neighborhoods without reinvesting in the existing community.
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Even recent talk of an early frost that could disrupt U.S. corn and soybean crops has not stirred speculators.
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As a result, speculators boosted their net long U.S. dollar position this week, to the highest since early June.
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Shanghai Futures Exchange copper built on overnight gains to close up 8.7 percent, amid a buying frenzy by speculators.
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If the other buyers of the artist are speculators, short-term art traders or flippers, you should avoid them.
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If we start to get through the lows of January, that could force some speculators to retrench their position.
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Speculators cut net long positions on Brent last week by 10,000 positions, weekly ICE data showed, highlighting these concerns.
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Securities and insurance regulators have already pledged to take action against "big crocodiles" – speculators accused of manipulating financial markets.
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As speculators continue to flock to these online investments, though, new scams have continued to crop up and evolve.
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"Stablecoins" such as Basis, Carbon and Tether, meanwhile, attempt to tame the volatility that makes cryptocurrencies attractive to speculators.
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The euro, in which speculators held record long positions, fell to $1.205 on Friday, its lowest since Jan. 12.
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Rather than blaming speculators, Americans and regulators, Europe's bankers and policymakers need to put their own house in order.
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With Japan on holiday, speculators drove the yen through 107.00 per dollar for the first time since October 2014.
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"We're taking risk premium out of the market again," he said, citing recent sizable long holdings by large speculators.
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Speculators who trade on technical signals regard a break above the 100-day moving average as a bullish sign.
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"Speculators reduced short positions in WTI crude by 15 percent in the week ended 1 March," the bank said.
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Speculators boosted net longs on the U.S. dollar to their highest in six weeks in the week ended Sept.
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"Wall Street speculators nearly destroyed the economy a decade ago, and the American people bailed them out," Sanders tweeted.
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Speculators have raced to unwind some of the record-large bearish positions racked up over the last six months.
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Speculators either extended longs or trimmed shorts across all grains and oilseeds through July 4 except for Minneapolis wheat.
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While funds and speculators have upped their bearish bets on the pound, there's room to ramp them up further.
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Speculators boosted bullish bets on the dollar in the week to last Tuesday to their highest in a month.
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Speculators have been net long on the dollar for 23 straight weeks, after being short for 48 consecutive weeks.
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NEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Speculators reduced their bullish bets on the U.S. dollar in the week ended Jan.
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But the tentative agreement left speculators with a two-month window to play tug-of-war with oil prices.
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So he prints money and blames speculators for the resulting inflation, which is expected to exceed 1,000% this year.
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Speculators added net longs in gold futures for the first time in four weeks in the week to Aug.
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Meanwhile, speculators were cutting favorable bets on the yen, having piled into the currency in the past few weeks.
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Speculators, meanwhile, have pared back their dollar positions but they remain net long the greenback by a large margin.
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Revived buying by speculators could help palladium to overcome technical resistance at its long-term uptrend line from 2011.
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Speculators cut their net short two-year Treasuries futures holdings to 104,947 contracts in the week to Feb. 27.
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Speculators had boosted net long bets on the dollar for a third straight week in the week ended Jan.
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CFTC data also showed speculators upped their net short two-year Treasuries position by the most in six weeks.
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Moreover, today's short-term speculators and high-frequency traders will have to invest those resources in more productive ways.
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Either these wagers pay off, especially in fixed income, or for speculators, things may be about to go "pop".
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This misconception, Schaeffer says, is why speculators might have been blamed for market conditions when crude prices were high.
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Chinese state run media has carried repeated warnings to offshore speculators against trying to profit from a yuan devaluation.
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The episode—banal, surface-level, but most importantly price-obsessed—already reflects how some investors and speculators view Bitcoin.
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That put the squeeze on speculators who were selling the yuan short on expectations the currency would fall further.
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Speculators who trade on technical signals regard a break below the 2544-day moving average as a bearish sign.
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Speculators who trade on technical signals regard a break above the 503-day moving average as a bullish sign.
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Speculators hold nearly 22008 percent more sell options than buy options for contracts expiring after the meeting on Nov.
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The felines are big producers who want prices to go higher, the rodents speculators betting that they will fall.
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But speculators are jumping on anything that may suggest large changes in supply, which may cause exaggerated price swings.
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Brent crude speculators cut their net long positions to the lowest level since 2015 in the week through Tuesday.
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Shanghai speculators, meanwhile, appear to be continuing to shun copper in favor of more exciting markets such as nickel.
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He said, however, that a lack of any agreement after the Doha talks was creating opportunities for "market speculators".
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Shanghai speculators, meanwhile, appear to be continuing to shun copper in favour of more exciting markets such as nickel.
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Speculators cut their net short position in COMEX gold by 4,186 contracts to 73,128 in week to Oct. 2.
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Speculators were eyeing the town, she said, but prices were still just a sixth of the average in Beijing.
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Last week speculators cut more than 2000,000 contracts betting on firmer U.S. and Brent oil prices, a record high.
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On August 1, 2017, for example, bitcoin speculators received one unit of bitcoin cash for every bitcoin already owned.
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Mantua is overrun with large grassy tracts where homes once stood; many have been purchased by developers and speculators.
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NEW YORK, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Speculators raised their bullish bets on the U.S. dollar in the week ended Feb.
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Chinese speculators don't like aluminium either and, in Chinese style, they're expressing their view by moving to other markets.
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Sales were hurt by persistent pressures in the sector as a crackdown on speculators showed few signs of abating.
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Shanghai speculators, meanwhile, appear to be continuing to shun copper in favor of more exciting markets such as nickel.
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But now, she said, property prices in Dandong were being driven up by speculators betting that trade would revive.
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In the latest week, speculators cut short bets on the Japanese yen for the first time since mid-February .
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Chinese speculators don't like aluminum either and, in Chinese style, they're expressing their view by moving to other markets.
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Money is also pouring into companies that speculators think might become acquisition targets for backdoor listings, dubbed "shell companies".
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GERMAN ECONOMY MINISTER ALTMAIER SAYS WE ARE DETERMINED TO DO ALL WE CAN TO STOP SPECULATORS IN CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
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Malaysia's prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, called Soros and other speculators "unscrupulous profiteers" whose immoral work served no social value.
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Bitcoin is still popular among currency speculators, and illicit activity accounts for only 1 percent of all Bitcoin transactions.
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Given the dour outlook for sterling, speculators have been building bets against the pound in the past few weeks.
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Speculators had increased their bets against sterling in the week up to last Tuesday, before the BoE's latest comments.
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Speculators have trimmed their bullish bets on the dollar, the latest data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed.
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This makes it less profitable for speculators to buy oil, sell it forward and store it in the meantime.
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SPECULATORS: The net short in LME copper was at 213% of open contracts on Friday, brokers Marex Spectron said.
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Recently, traders, speculators and many average citizens have been disregarding Sir Isaac's physics and going all in on bitcoin.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds and speculators spent the first four months of the year betting heavily against the dollar.
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"Speculators are already excessively short in the dollar," said Yukio Ishizuki, foreign exchange strategist at Daiwa Securities in Tokyo.
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Speculators have trimmed their bullish bets on the dollar, the latest data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed.
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Yet speculators' net long position on the franc versus the dollar has swelled to the biggest since late-2016 .
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As soon as our current bull market takes a nosedive, bitcoin and ether speculators could take a big hit.
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The way Sanders proposes paying for free public college tuition is by levying a tax on Wall Street speculators.
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When positioning was almost as stretched back in May 2007, hedge funds and speculators began scaling back their long positions.
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Seeking splendid isolation, octogenarians in power since independence discourage foreigners and speculators they fear might come to control Algeria's fate.
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Bitcoin futures and other derivatives would make it easier for more investors and speculators to trade the new asset class.
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Speculators also raised sterling net shorts to 74,0.353 contracts in the latest week, the highest since June 2013, data showed.
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Some speculators would buy dollars at the official rate and sell them for a quick profit on the parallel market.
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Data last week showed speculators are the most net long S&P e-mini futures contracts ESc23 in three years.
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Speculators had driven the dollar higher on Wednesday in expectation that Trump's first news conference since his victory on Nov.
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CHANGSHA, China/BEIJING (Reuters) - Property speculators in China are looking for the next big thing beyond the country's major cities.
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In fairness to all you meme speculators out there, I actually think one meme economist got this one quite right.
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Reflecting investor interest toward bullion, speculators trimmed their net short positions in Comex gold contracts in the week to Dec.
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But market participants warned of more volatility ahead as speculators were reacting to even small developments in the physical markets.
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With prices moving up and down, speculators can bet for or against a variety of assets and make a profit.
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Speculators switched to a net long position in gold of 10,252 contracts, adding 269.1.62,791 contracts in the week to Dec.
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Speculators increased bets against the U.S. dollar to the highest in over three years to the week to last Tuesday.
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No one's shedding any tears for speculators like Nelson Peltz, who has lost some $700 million on his GE bet.
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President Nicolás Maduro says that the constant shortages of more or less everything in Venezuela are caused by evil speculators.
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Data on Friday showed speculators cut their bearish bets on the U.S. dollar in the week up to last Tuesday.
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The measures have pushed down prices of private homes for nine straight quarters, and appear to be flushing out speculators.
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The net amount of speculators' short positions in 10-year T-notes exceeded long positions by 401,804 contracts on Aug.
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Data on Friday showed the number of bets by speculators for a stronger peso rose to a four-year high.
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Home prices in smaller cities started to climb last summer as curbs in big cities prompted speculators to look elsewhere.
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But the emergence of a large contango implies many hedgers and speculators now expect stocks to remain higher than before.
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Some Bitcoin advocates want Bitcoin to be a medium of exchange, while Bitcoin Cash has attracted its share of speculators.
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That skepticism gives way to grudging acceptance as more and more professionals, individuals and outright speculators push prices higher still.
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Speculators increased their bets on the U.S. dollar for the first time in six weeks in the week ended Sept.
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The big fall was likely driven by selling from speculators who had held a huge amount of yen long positions.
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Data on Friday showed that currency speculators held a record yen long position in the Chicago futures exchange last week.
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Speculators' net short bets on the U.S. dollar grew in the latest week to the highest total since January 2013.
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Recent gains have been driven by speculators covering short positions, Alastair Munro at broker Marex Spectron said in a note.
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Commodity producers and consumers have long blamed "speculators" for distorting prices that should be set by physical supply and demand.
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Large speculators also increased their net short position in CBOT corn and soybean futures, the data released on Friday showed.
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Speculators have exited options positions that could have provided exposure to higher prices in the next several years, they said.
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DISCIPLINE MARKET SPECULATORS Erdogan said Turkey had thwarted attacks on the lira by the United States and the West generally.
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Speculators also raised sterling net shorts to 74,386 contracts in the latest week, the highest since June 2013, data showed.
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In early March, speculators held their largest net short positions on record in Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybeans.
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In its battle against speculators during the market crisis, Beijing netted journalists, senior executives in brokerages and even securities regulators.
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As with all commodities that shoot up in price because of a predictable surge in demand, the sheep attract speculators.
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Speculators' net short bets on the dollar grew to their highest since January 2013 in the latest week through Aug.
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Hedge funds and other speculators hold a record level of bullish bets on Brent, on expectations of further price rises.
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How long will hedge funds and speculators hold onto a position that's costing them so much money week after week?
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The stock market took negative rates as "a harbinger of greater financial risk" and speculators stayed bullish on the yen.
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Speculators hoping a Japanese scientist would be awarded the prize for medicine were disappointed on Monday recognised for their work.
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There is a large community of domestic speculators and a network of brokerages, which should help the new contract succeed.
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Brent reached a session high of $23 a barrel, as speculators attempted to push the price above the $79.00 level.
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Photo: Dan Kitwood (Getty)The wildly fluctuating prices of cryptocurrencies are a feature not a bug, where speculators are concerned.
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Palladium prices rose to a premium over platinum for the first time since 216.69 as speculators piled into the market.
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NEW YORK, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Speculators trimmed their net long bets on the U.S. dollar in the week ended Dec.
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They fell prey to the times and closed for business as rents went up and the property speculators moved in.
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Brent crude speculators on the InterContinental Exchange raised their net long positions by 2,506 contracts to 458,449 during the week.
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Spider-Man number one sold more than 21 million copies, with comics speculators buying up multiple issues as an investment.
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Speculators have staked out long positions, betting that production cuts will continue to remove oversupply from the market, he said.
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Mr. Pelletiere is one of the many speculators driving a new economy in the area, buying and selling flooded homes.
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But doubling down is what speculators do, and — at least in the short term — they are profiting from their efforts.
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" Mr. Taymouri attributed the fall in the currency to speculators as well as the government "for just having stood by.
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Over the past year, speculators have largely laid low due to a relentless crackdown on market manipulation and insider trading.
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People living in poverty can be displaced in a recovery as speculators buy inexpensive land hoping to make a score.
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The economy is made of very many classes of speculators and investors-, SS: But as a trigger for something nasty?
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Producers and speculators have also been loading up on options contracts of U.S. crude to protect themselves from downside risk.
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Brent reached a session high of $78.94 a barrel, as speculators attempted to break through resistance at $79.00 a barrel.
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Speculators raised their bullish positions in COMEX gold and reduced bullish bets on silver contracts in the week to Sept.
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It's not that they disagree with the trend, it's just that those pesky speculators have been pushing it too hard.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Speculators do not typically like to be short the grain and oilseed market at this time of year.
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Speculators also switched to a net short position of 1,171 lots in U.S. heating oil futures in the latest week.
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Meanwhile, speculators cut their net short position in COMEX gold by 4,0.33 contracts to 73,128 in week to Oct. 2.
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Last week, speculators raised the number of net-long contracts on the peso to 84,821, the highest since June 2014.
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The ones who will be put out of business are the speculators, who can go and speculate on something else.
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That means JPM Coin will not be subject to the wild price volatility that has drawn speculators to other cryptocurrencies.
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Speculators raised their net long position in COMEX gold for the sixth straight week in the week to Aug. 22.
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"We think it is an absolutely short-lived market reaction, which in large part is driven by speculators," said Dmitriev.
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"Speculators have been pointing to impending rises for some months, citing the impending halving of rewards for miners," explained James Lynn.
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While a fair price was around current levels, speculators and investors could take it as high as $2215,20.6-$23,2154, he added.
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Speculators trimmed their long positions on the pound — bets that it would rise — in the week to last Tuesday, data showed.
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But speculators also pulled back bullish bets on the dollar which retreated against a currency basket to a five-day low .
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But a coin without volatility would be of little interest to such speculators, and it would be quite easy to design.
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While bitcoin's volatility has attracted speculators, it has prevented it from becoming a more widespread form of payment in mainstream commerce.
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Hedge funds and other speculators also boosted their bullish bets in U.S. crude futures and options in the week to Jan.
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Chicago futures markets data show that hedge funds and other speculators now hold the biggest short dollar position since August 2011.
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This was the first time gold speculators have held a net long position since July, and the strongest one since June.
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"If more speculators jump on the bandwagon (because of the U.S. government shutdown), gold will pass the $1,300 level," Briesemann said.
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Home prices in smaller cities started to climb last summer as property curbs in big cities prompted speculators to look elsewhere.
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Speculators can drive the price up and down in ways that would be terribly unsettling for people with significant bitcoin investments.
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Speculators trimmed their bullish stance in COMEX gold and cut net long positions in silver contracts in the week to Aug.
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Speculators raised sterling net shorts in the last week, Reuters reported Friday citing data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Meanwhile, speculators cut their net short position in COMEX gold by 4,186 contracts to 73,128 in the week to Oct. 2.
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Speculators raised their net long positions in COMEX gold for the first time in four weeks in the week to Oct.
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Bitcoin, left for dead by many investors, has been on a tear of late and is attracting significant interest from speculators.
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Speculators, meanwhile, extended their net short position on Comex gold by 29,881 contracts to 103,009 contracts, CFTC data showed last week.
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Speculators trimmed their long positions on the pound - bets that it would rise - in the week to last Tuesday, data showed.
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Short-term loans also soared in the third quarter, suggesting speculators may be trying to circumvent property cooling measures, economists said.
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Swings in the dollar also impact crude as financial speculators weigh the differing profit potentials of foreign exchange and commodity futures.
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Earlier in the day, concern over OPEC's ability to hammer out a deal had brought some speculators to unwind bullish bets.
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The fault was attributed to futures traders, although the traditional complaint about speculators is that they push prices up, not down.
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Speculators cut their net long position in COMEX gold for the first time in four weeks in the week to Nov.
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"It's a very big problem because land speculators have actually disenfranchised many communities and inflated the cost of projects," Masinde said.
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Last week's interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve along with its hawkish statement have spurred speculators buy back dollars again.
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The trade war and rising supply should accelerate the trend of speculators reducing their bullish positions in the WTI futures markets.
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Like Bitcoin and Ethereum, CryptoKitties allowed speculators to make a lot of money if they got in at the right time.
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This is a boon for Japanese people and businesses who use bitcoin, and for speculators who see a global market opening.
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If the speculators get their way, bitcoin might end up being another dry financial tool, bereft of its world-changing potential.
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Last week's futures data showed speculators were still unwinding long positions as high U.S. inventories offset cuts from other oil producers.
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Indeed, speculators increased short positions on sterling to the highest level in nearly three years in the week to last Tuesday.
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The data showed speculators raised their net long holdings of 24,983 contracts to 31,125 lots in the week to July 4.
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But the market hit a lull this week after speculators expecting an earlier exit closed positions and weakened the crown somewhat.
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These include wealthy collectors, people who wanted cars as a child but didn't have enough money to buy them, and speculators.
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This kind of volatility tends to make speculators out of investors, whether they want — or even mean — to be or not.
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Speculators have remained bullish on the greenback with ongoing uncertainties about Brexit and trade negotiations between China and the United States.
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The foreign exchange regulator is also studying the introduction of a currency trading Tobin tax, part of efforts to penalise speculators.
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"As speculators play the dollar, global markets lack a clear direction," said Ipek Ozkardeskaya, senior market analyst at London Capital Group.
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Central China is slowing after hitting dizzying heights, while the sparsely populated north and west draw only the bravest of speculators.
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The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said it would not allow the futures market to become a "hot-bed" for speculators.
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Chicago futures market positioning data show that hedge funds and speculators have increased their bets against U.S. bonds across the curve.
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Speculators have cut bullish bets on the Canadian dollar, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed.
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Data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission released on Friday showed speculators' bets against the pound were at a record high.
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With higher prices come the predictable howls of protest from politicians — about everything from oil-producer cartels to Wall Street speculators.
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All of these latter-day speculators will have their hands burned to a crisp, and they will learn the proper lesson.
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"If it moves 7 yen or 8 yen a day, I think the government should intervene to punish speculators," Hamada said.
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His promise to tax "Wall Street speculators" as social restitution for the taxpayer-funded bailout of 2008 is misguided at best.
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Speculators slashed their bearish bets in the CBOT corn market by more than 21,22015 contracts in the week ended Jan. 24.
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"Bitcoin and other digital currencies are a fad that has attracted the attention of programmers, speculators, and early adaptors," Foster said.
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Far-right League leader Matteo Salvini, speaking on RAI state TV, warned "speculators" against betting that the government would climb down.
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The chart below shows the difference between hedge fund and speculators' net peso and real positions on the U.S. futures markets.
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In the past decade, bitcoin has become a source of fascination for investors, speculators, true believers and skeptics around the world.
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If speculators were to have a collective moment of doubt, suddenly fearing that Bitcoins were worthless, well, Bitcoins would become worthless.
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After the storm in August, Mr. Pelletiere joined a constellation of other speculators scrambling to buy flooded homes on the cheap.
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Since then, the rial has partially rebounded as authorities have sold dollars to support it and threatened currency speculators with arrest.
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Housing in Beijing and Shanghai has soared beyond the reach of even many affluent families and speculators — at least for now.
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Instead, Ross declared that the price changes were the work of "antisocial" speculators engaged in "profiteering," and called for an investigation.
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Often politicians blamed "evil" and "immoral" foreign speculators for these crises, but it was the locals who first saw trouble coming.
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Speculators increased their bullish stance in COMEX gold and upped net long positions in silver contracts in the week to Aug.
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Speculators raised their net long positions in Brent futures and options by 16,962 contracts to 430,699 in the week to Sept.
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Speculators, whether those chasing the new bear narrative or those simply chasing technical momentum, seem to have rushed into a trap.
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Speculators, meanwhile, turned net short on the Japanese yen for the first time since December last year to 269 short contracts.
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The dramatic shift in speculators' positioning on the Chicago futures market coincided with yields shooting up to the highest since March.
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This is all well and good, you might say, but what if this is actually the time the speculators guessed correctly?
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On opening day of baseball-card season, before the speculators and brokers take over, collectors get to feel like kids again.
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The local dollar dipped to $1.33 against the U.S. dollar as speculators had been wagering on an even stronger growth outcome.
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Companies are busy buying back stock at a near-$1 trillion annual pace, not issuing fresh equity to feed the speculators.
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After going short for five weeks starting around mid-April, speculators have turned long the dollar for a sixth straight week.
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"But there's a disconnect between the urban fabric and culture of the neighborhood and what speculators want to do," he continued.
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The Chinese government on Friday issued a warning to speculators betting against the yuan, which is also known as the renminbi.
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Environmentalists say his policies have emboldened land speculators, ranchers and farmers they blame for Amazon deforestation reaching an 11-year high.
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They aren't selling, at least not often, so Tesla is traded on a daily basis by speculators, for the most part.
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Speculators also reduced their net short positions against the British pound after growing to their largest in three years last week.
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Speculators' net short position on bitcoin CBOE futures shrank to 1,597 contracts, from 1,829 contracts the previous week, the data showed.
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Offshore, the yuan has at times been valued as much as 2 percent lower as speculators made a more pessimistic judgment.
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By soaking up yuan liquidity offshore, the auction will make it more expensive for speculators to bet on a weakening yuan.
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The company's Chinese name reads similar to "Trump wins wisely", attracting speculators who bet the stock will benefit from a Trump victory.
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In other currencies, speculators pulled back their net short position on the Canadian dollar to 49,007 contracts from 48,985, a week prior.
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Euro net shorts sank to 1,653 contracts, the lowest since early May 2014, when speculators held net long positions on the currency.
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Beijing, a bellwether of national policy direction, is on the frontline as China takes on speculators and tries to tame home prices.
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Beijing, home to about 22 million people, is on the frontline as China takes on speculators and tries to tame home prices.
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Weekly positioning data also showed speculators are net long Australian dollars, which helped it move away from last week's four-month lows.
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Exploiting the terms of the Homestead Act of 1862, corrupt speculators were using dummy settlers to acquire rich tracts of forested land.
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Speculators with a bullish view on the yen could take advantage of the long holiday to push up the yen, traders say.
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Federal tax subsidies for purchasing, operating, and reselling rental property attracts speculators eager to flip buildings, which raises rents and destabilizes neighborhoods.
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Many are made by cryptocurrency speculators, who hope that stoking excitement around blockchains will boost the value of their related cryptocurrency holdings.
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Speculators have cut their bearish bets on the Canadian dollar, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed.
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Bets in favour of the euro were increased to the highest in more than three years by speculators, according to CFTC data.
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George Soros argues that a "superbubble" only forms after it has survived a severe test, imbuing speculators with a sense of invincibility.
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A flurry of new infrastructure projects across Kenya has driven up prices, attracted speculators and exacerbating long-simmering tensions over untitled land.
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The shows will sweep into a pretty empty development, turning it into an absolute spectacle for the afternoon when speculators come in.
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After loggers extract wood, speculators burn the remaining vegetation to clear it in hopes of selling the land to farmers and ranchers.
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Long positions in the spread, rather than a simple outright long position in the spot price, are favored by more sophisticated speculators.
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It helps a lot more that Chinese speculators don't yet seem ready to turn as sour on copper as the CME bears.
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POSITIONING: Speculators' net short position in LME copper reduced to 20.6% of open contracts as of Thursday's close, brokers Marex Spectron said.
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Data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed that speculators cut their bearish bets on the Canadian dollar.
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A possible benefit would be to nudge speculators to sell or at least rent out homes that they would otherwise leave unoccupied.
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Already the banks have responded to the pressure by hiking rates on investment loans, and particularly interest-only loans favoured by speculators.
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On the other hand, speculation that the BOJ will take additional easing steps in September could prompt fresh yen-selling from speculators.
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"Speculators' positioning has gone to extreme levels as they had been selling the dollar continuously," Yukio Ishizuki, senior strategist at Daiwa Securities.
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Very, very basically, Bernie Sanders has a dramatic plan to regulate the big banks, tax the speculators and punish Wall Street evildoers.
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Gold speculators extended their net short position on Comex gold contracts by 29,881 contracts to 13,009 contracts in the week to Oct.
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The euro, in which speculators held record long position, fell to $1.20965 in the previous session, its lowest level since Jan. 12.
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Speculators have cut their bullish bets on the Canadian dollar, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed.
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"It was the same set up as 2014, speculators were long, and commercial interests were short," said John Kilduff of Again Capital.
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Early indications are February was, for many hedge funds and speculators, a dreadful month, and for some strategies the worst on record.
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Speculators have raised bullish bets on the currency, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed on Friday.
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Large speculators increased their net short position in CBOT corn in the week to March 12, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
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Speculators in four major NYMEX and ICE markets increased their bearish bets by 15,382 contracts to 65,401 in the week to Feb.
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The amount of speculators' bearish, or short, positions in Eurodollar futures exceeded bullish, or long, positions by 2268 million contracts on Dec.
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Some conspiracy-minded speculators on HackerNews even theorized that the tweet was an attempt to forestall a hostile takeover from the Saudis.
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Speculators in four major NYMEX and ICE markets decreased their bearish bets by 21,285 contracts to 24,277 in the week to Feb.
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Speculators in four major NYMEX and ICE markets increased their bearish bets by 7,133 contracts to 30,971 in the week to Jan.
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Traders said margin calls following recent heavy losses were adding to selling pressure, especially in smaller-capital stocks favoured by local speculators.
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That data is current through Tuesday, however, and analysts expect speculators and funds likely reduced their positions during the three-day rout.
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For speculators looking at property, the excess supply in smaller cities was all too evident, so they turned instead to the megalopolises.
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The financial regulator said on Sunday it will closely monitor markets to prevent speculators and unfair trade practices ahead of the election.
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But property speculators are betting the government will relent and ease curbs if economic growth begins to falter, as many analysts expect.
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Zhou's latest remarks signalled that Beijing will continue to target speculators and curb credit risks in the property sector to prevent bubbles.
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"Some speculators appeared to have sold the euro in thin trading," said Yukio Ishizuki, senior currency strategist at Daiwa Securities in Tokyo.
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Speculators such as hedge funds had amassed the biggest bet against sterling on record, a net short position of over 107,000 contracts.
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Speculators are choosing CME over LME because it is both cheaper to use and easier to understand with its vanilla futures structure.
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Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele on Tuesday said that speculators betting on a naira fall "are taking a risk and will lose".
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The fair-weather speculators who came in late, and left early, never did and will not define how far blockchain will go.
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Hedge funds and speculators have been short the dollar since June last year, and that position has broadly been growing since January.
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In a possible sign of waning dollar bullishness, speculators slashed their long-held long dollar positions to $15.31 billion as of Oct.
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Speculators in four major NYMEX and ICE markets reduced their bullish bets by 28,891 contracts to 256,808 in the week to Feb.
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Industry estimates of the U.S. soybean harvest have continued to creep higher, but speculators hold a stance identical to two months ago.
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission data on Friday showed speculators had reduced bullish bets on the dollar to their lowest in four months.
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The fear, for proponents and critics alike, is that greedy speculators will run up the tab for taxpayers while harming current residents.
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Record high U.S. stocks have led speculators to cut holdings of U.S. crude oil futures and options to the lowest since December.
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Speculators increased bets against the dollar in the week up to last Tuesday, taking the most net dollar short bets since Feb.
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Speculators cut their net long holdings of Brent crude futures and options by 5,659 lots in the latest week to 391,035 contracts.
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Bruised by a strong U.S. dollar, the price of gold is nearing a one-year low, with speculators holding record short positions.
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In the currency markets, Australian and New Zealand dollars both fell as speculators wagered both countries could see interest cuts next week.
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In U.S. crude futures, hedge funds and speculators raised their net longs by 17,829 contracts to 195,367 for the week ended Sept.
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In order to finance the league's infrastructure, Ward pitched Wall Street speculators and other wealthy businessmen, who came on as part owners.
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"Right now, the speculators are pressing me on three major issues: marijuana, cryptocurrencies and the stock of Micron, " Cramer said on Monday.
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The accusations of greed might have been directed at Kaplan and Levien, seen as speculators coming to profit from others' hard work.
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A region that once attracted heavy industry is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity.
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Prices of homes in major Chinese cities have stabilized in the past year following several waves of purchase curbs to deter speculators.
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The expansion of bets on higher prices leaves nickel vulnerable to a correction if speculators change their minds, analysts at Commerzbank said.
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Denis Manturov, the head of the Ministry for Industry and Trade, said that it was necessary to prevent "speculators" exporting goods overseas.
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It's an increasingly aggressive hunt for scapegoats: greedy speculators, the deep state, foreign interlopers, dishonest journalists, saboteurs, fifth columnists, and so on.
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Speculators' net long bets on the U.S. dollar fell to a five-week low, worth $20.60 billion in the week ended Sept.
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Speculators have raised their bullish bets on the Canadian dollar, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed.
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It is the clarion call of speculators, who fully expect to get out before any of their own things can get broken.
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Following the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS7373 Tehran to Kyiv, there was confusion among speculators regarding the aircraft type involved.
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The rebound comes after speculators' long U.S. dollar position last week shrank to the smallest since the second week of June 2018.
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Speculators have meanwhile expanded their net short position on the Comex exchange to the biggest ever recorded, helping to drive prices lower.
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It has also engineered a sharp rise in the yuan currency against the dollar to ward off speculators betting on further declines.
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He argues that speculators drive up RIN prices, putting small refiners at risk of bankruptcy, which raises concerns about U.S. energy security.
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Speculators also trimmed net U.S. dollar longs to $3.01 billion in the week ended June 593, from $6.62 billion the previous week.
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Meanwhile, natural gas speculators in four major NYMEX, ICE markets cut net long positions by 11,410 contracts to 194,974 during the week.
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And, like speculators in the throes of the dot-com bubble, many of Mr. Trump's supporters are mistakenly conflating enthusiasm with success.
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Much activity focused on second- and third-tier stocks favoured by local retail speculators, such as Saudi Fisheries , which surged 3.9 percent.
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Robust demand for U.S. soybeans, including strong export sales and inspections, continues to lend price support and limit speculators' worries over burdensome supply.
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The amount of speculators' bearish, or short, positions in 10-year Treasury futures exceeded bullish, or long, positions by 615,2.593 contracts on Oct.
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Speculators took their bets against the pound versus the dollar to record highs last month, although they have since trimmed those short positions.
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While cryptocurrencies have gained traction with speculators, partly because of their volatility, they have struggled to make inroads as viable forms of payment.
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Emerging and European stocks peaked in March and the dollar bottomed out soon after, forcing a scramble among speculators to cover short positions.
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Theoretically, those steps would count as efforts to free the yuan - they were imposed last year to curtail speculators betting against the yuan.
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With the rebels no longer in control, land speculators and people who are clearing land for farming, mining and logging have rushed in.
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That's when stock that was issued on the IPO becomes widely available for lending, which will enable speculators to sell the stock short.
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That's a windfall not just for cryptocurrency speculators, but for financial privacy advocates everywhere—including a few suddenly wealthy dark web drug dealers.
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Traders said some of the buying was coming from speculators and consumers who regarded the current levels as cheap after steep losses recently.
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In the 10-year T-bond area, speculators including hedge funds already accumulated a record net level of short bets on Sept. 25.
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Some speculators think the trend in Beijing's daily exchange rate fixings could be paving the way for a devaluation in March or April.
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Large speculators trimmed their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to May 7, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
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Large speculators trimmed their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week ended May 7, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
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Unfortunately for speculators, the commission ultimately concluded that the price of Bitcoin is still too vulnerable to manipulation for it to be certified.
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Some of those users will be interested in the actual currency, but others will be undesirable speculators that just leech off the system.
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Speculators have taken to using the yuan's cheaper offshore forwards market to wager China will finally devalue the currency around March or April.
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Chinese speculators have driven up, and then down, the prices of everything from iron ore to steel, and from soybeans to egg futures.
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Large speculators increased their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to April 16, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
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COPPER POSITIONING: Speculators' net short position in LME copper was equal to 2790.50% of open contracts as of Wednesday, brokers Marex Spectron said.
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Large speculators trimmed their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to May 14, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
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Data on Friday showed speculators trimmed their long positions on the pound - bets that it would rise - in the week to last Tuesday.
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Weekly U.S. government data on Friday showed that gold speculators hiked their bearish bet to a record in the most recent reporting week.
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Large speculators increased their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to April 23, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
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Record-large short holdings by large speculators limited further declines in grains and soy as markets remain susceptible to bouts of short covering.
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The amount of speculators' bullish, or long, positions in 10-year Treasury futures exceeded bearish, or short, positions by 74,506 contracts on Oct.
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Record-large short holdings by large speculators limited the downside in grains and soy as markets remain susceptible to bouts of short covering.
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The Southern states were, in general, not that heavily indebted (South Carolina was an exception), while the speculators disproportionately lived in Northern cities.
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Technical faff, and the volatility that makes it attractive to speculators, means that it is hard to use bitcoin to actually buy things.
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By soaking up yuan liquidity in Hong Kong, the auction will make it more expensive for speculators to bet on a weakening yuan.
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Speculators increased their net long position in COMEX silver contracts, but cut net long positions in gold, in the week to July 26.
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Positioning data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed speculators' bullish bets on sterling had moderated in the week to Jan.
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Data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed that speculators have cut their bearish bets on the Canadian dollar.
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Some lawmakers said adjustments made by regulators and the European Commission to the position limits will end up giving more leeway for speculators.
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Speculators, on the other hand, pared their net shorts in Eurodollar futures to 2.69 million contracts, the fewest net shorts since March 5.
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The amount of speculators' bearish, or short, positions in 10-year Treasury futures exceeded bullish, or long, positions by 293,186 contracts on Dec.
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The amount of speculators' bearish, or short, positions in 10-year Treasury futures exceeded bullish, or long, positions by 297,179 contracts on Jan.
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Core inflation, on the other hand, surprised by slowing sharply, leading speculators to actually narrow the odds on a rate cut this year.
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The rally has also been driven by short covering, as speculators including hedge funds and other money managers have amassed record short positions.
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One might have thought this would have curbed the corn selloff at the very minimum, but apparently speculators were not at all fazed.
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The rally was driven largely by speculators and not justified by fundamentals showing a largely balanced market, Capital Economics analyst Ross Strachan said.
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Large speculators raised their net long position in CBOT corn futures in the week to July 16, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
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Gold speculators raised their net short position by 0.43,923 lots to 77,313 lots, the largest in three weeks, in the week to Sept.
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The cash-settled bitcoin futures allow investors and speculators to place bets on whether bitcoin will soar or slip, without holding bitcoin itself.
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Speculators have exited options positions that could have provided exposure to higher prices in the next several years, market participants said on Thursday.
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Gross long positions in NYMEX futures and options among speculators soared to the highest on record, based on publicly available data to 2006.
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Speculators avoided extending their bearishness over the soy complex last week, slightly retracting their overall short stance, which was led by soybean oil.
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Big speculators were net short the peso by more than 37,000 contracts, an increase of more than 11,000 contracts from the previous week.
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Both nickel and copper touched the highest levels in more than three weeks, partly fueled by speculators buying back bearish positions, traders said.
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FUNDS: Negative sentiment is higlighted by data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission showing speculators raised net short copper positions on COMEX.
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Some retirees and speculators put their savings into emus that were sold to them but never delivered, sparking lawsuits over avian Ponzi schemes.
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Speculators focused on International Fish Farming, which soared in early trade but closed 0.6 percent lower in its heaviest volume since June 2014.
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The euro, in which speculators had a record long position, fell to $22009 in the previous session, its lowest level since Jan. 12.
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Large speculators cut their net long position in CBOT corn futures in the week to July 30, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
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Both trends remain in place, and as the latest data show, speculators look like holding onto them for the rest of the year.
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According to the latest Commodity Futures Trading Commission data, speculators have further raised their net long dollar bets, including those against the yen.
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Data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday showed speculators had recently ramped up their bearish bets against the Mexican currency.
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The crackdown on speculators in China's steel markets has doused a recovery in base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange, analysts say.
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Large speculators increased their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to April 2, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
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The positioning data also showed speculators are net long Australian dollars, which helped that currency move away from last week's four-month lows.
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The amount of speculators' bearish, or short, positions in 10-year Treasury futures exceeded bullish, or long, positions by 756,316 contracts on Sept.
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"We believe China is sending a strong message to speculators and trying to stabilize renminbi depreciation expectations," HSBC said in a note Tuesday.
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Large speculators trimmed their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to March 26, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
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Speculators cut net long bets on the dollar last week from a near two-year high, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission data.
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Speculators have cut bullish bets on the Canadian dollar, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed on Friday.
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As such, speculators reduced their net long positions in both Chicago-traded corn and soybean futures and options in the week ended Aug.
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Speculators added to their short positions against the euro in the week to July 9, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data.
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The rally was driven largely by speculators and not justified by fundamentals showing a largely balanced market, said Capital Economics analyst Ross Strachan.
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"These measures hit speculators looking for short-term gains very hard," said Beijing-based chief analyst Zhang Dawei with Centaline, a property agency.
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Both nickel and copper touched the highest levels in more than three weeks, partly fuelled by speculators buying back bearish positions, traders said.
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Others suggested commodities futures markets were the only place left for speculators to make quick profits given weakness in stocks, bonds and housing.
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High prices led to high transaction fees, which made life difficult for developers whilst also adding uncertainty for market speculators and token collectors.
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Speculators, however, appear to be paying no heed to all this — they are sitting on their biggest long-dollar position since Jan 2017.
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But unless the price can resist the cumulative weight of bearish funds and speculators, it could be the turn of zinc miners next.
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Neither number, however, is likely to settle the unease which has seen speculators double net bets against sterling in the past three weeks.
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Speculators cut net long positions on Brent last week by 10,000 contracts, weekly ICE data showed, highlighting investor concerns about rising U.S. production.
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Struggling homeowners lose their homes and speculators turn the properties into high-cost rentals that contribute to displacement in communities across the country.
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There's been heavy trading in the contracts, and that's been attributed to speculators, many of whom are retail investors instead of institutional actors.
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Since bitcoin is not yet accepted by many merchants, its value depends on speculators' view on what others will pay in the future.
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Speculators' net long dollar positions rose last week to the highest since January 2016, calculations by Reuters and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, show.
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Currency speculators increased their bets against the greenback to a three-week high, according to data from Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday.
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Chen Xiaochuan, marketing manager with local residential property project Xiang-Shore Park said speculators make up about a third of homebuyers in Changsha.
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Copper, zinc and other base metals rose as speculators piled back into the market on hopes more production cuts would lead to shortages.
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Some speculators were concerned that complications with the new iPhone development would push the release date — and therefore the initial unveiling — into October.
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Regulators have suppressed techniques abused by speculators, such as short-term borrowings using bond-repurchase agreements and so-called negotiable certificates of deposit.
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Sterling fell below $1.14913 in increasingly volatile trade last week, and speculators on Chicago futures markets have amassed record bets against the pound.
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In January, when China roiled global markets by allowing the yuan to slide sharply, speculators piled on bets that another devaluation was imminent.
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Now is the time to make banking work for the productive economy and for all Americans, not just a handful of wealthy speculators.
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"We've seen the small speculators coming in and buying Chicago wheat," said Ted Seifried, chief marketing strategist with the Zaner Group in Chicago.
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Speculators cut their net long positions in COMEX gold and silver contracts for the third straight week, in the week to Oct. 3.
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Speculators also pared their net bearish or short bets on U.S. 10-year Treasury note futures from their highest levels since April 2125.
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Scanlon said forensics could discourage speculators who hope to poach rhino now and then offload the horn if the global ban is lifted.
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Speculators have ramped up bets that interest rate differentials between the United States and other major economies, including Japan and Australia, will increase.
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If hedge funds and speculators have given up shorting the dollar, they haven't thrown in the towel on selling volatility, CFTC data show.
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Speculators were keen not to make the mistakes of last year, when a smaller South American soy harvest caught big traders by surprise.
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The amount of speculators' bearish, or short, positions in 10-year Treasury futures exceeded bullish, or long, positions by 196,853 contracts on Jan.
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It is also the beginning of Whittier, where 4 local businesses have been displaced as a result of land speculators buying up properties.
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The amount of speculators' bullish, or long, positions in 10-year Treasury futures exceeded bearish, or short, positions by 1,719 contracts on Aug.
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"These are the same speculators and gamblers who crashed our economy in 2008 and then we had to bail them out," Corbyn said.
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Data on Friday showed that the net long position of speculators on the greenback had risen rose to their highest since mid-January.
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Previously, traders had refused to show quotes on the over-the-counter spot market after the bank vowed to crack down on speculators.
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Speculators may like the wild swings, including the former Fortress executive Mike Novogratz, who is raising a $500 million digital-currency hedge fund.
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On Friday, U.S. data showed hedge funds and other speculators had raised net long positions in the precious metal for nine straight weeks.
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At the moment, the large speculators — Garner's main focus — are slashing their positions in gold futures to the lowest they've been in years.
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That may mean squeezing yuan money market rates in Hong Kong higher to make it more expensive for speculators to short the currency.
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Latest data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed that speculators raised net long positions on the yen for the week ended Aug.
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The speculators' aggregate net long position was the smallest since early July, suggesting the greenback has more room to rise against other currencies.
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"The rouble will try to strengthen, including thanks to speculators closing long positions (in safe assets)," said Alexey Antonov from the Alor Broker.
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TECHNICALS/POSITIONING: Speculators were liquidating long positions in copper and the price decline was triggering pre-set sell orders, broker Marex Spectron said.
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TECHNICALS/POSITIONING: Speculators were liquidating long positions in copper and the price decline was triggering pre-set sell orders, brokers Marex Spectron said.
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Earlier this year it was seized upon by speculators who pushed up the value of Monero significantly before the price fell back down.
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The Seoul government on Monday announced new property market regulations, including tighter mortgage guidelines, to rein speculators and rein in galloping property prices.
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Regulators are also concerned speculators could drive up property prices beyond the reach of first-home buyers and those in low-income category.
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Speculators' net short bets on the dollar are at their highest since late September 2012, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission data.
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He added that the preliminary report proved "all the speculators with false allegations" wrong, referring to criticism and doubts over the pilot's qualifications.
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The latest positioning data on Chicago futures markets show that FX speculators hold their biggest bets on the euro appreciating since October 21.9.
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And why should society wish to confer vast monetary claims on the enterprising nerds and opportunistic speculators currently in possession of crypto-fortunes?
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Data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday showed that speculators had recently ramped up their bearish bets against the peso.
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Speculators betting gold investors will continue to get burned have made the biggest bet against the precious metal ever in the futures market.
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It gives inflation-targeting central bankers the pretext for massive intrusion in the financial markets and Wall Street speculators endless bubble finance windfalls.
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Speculators have used this legal trick to force the sale of millions of acres of black-owned land over the past several decades.
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Analysts said in a market where speculators held record-high bets against sterling, the data gave an excuse to some to trim those positions.
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POSITIONING: Speculators' net short position in LME copper has expanded to 21.2% of active contracts - the largest since September, according to broker Marex Spectron.
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POSITIONING: Speculators' net short position in LME copper has expanded to 2320% of active contracts - the largest since September, according to broker Marex Spectron.
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"Many are saying the VR fad is dead because we didn't reach the astronomically high initial projections of a few hyped speculators," he says.
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Never mind that "The Big Short" turns the very financial speculators who profited from other people's lost homes into underdog heroes — nifty trick, that!
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Dubai's index ended up 0.2 percent in volatile trade as speculators booked profits in some mid- and small-cap shares and chased after others.
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Curbs on the property market to fend off speculators are also expected to persist, putting a lid on a range of sectors including construction.
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A finance ministry official was quoted by Jiji newsagency as saying that the recent moves in the foreign exchange market was driven by speculators.
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Within hours of the announcement about the new city, speculators were flocking to the area's existing property developments to buy up whatever was available.
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China's official purchasing management index (PMI) dipped to 21 April, when speculators had wagered on a steady outcome of 143 or even an improvement.
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Speculators have cut their bearish bets on the Canadian dollar, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed on Friday.
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COPPER POSITIONING/TECHNICALS: Speculators' net short in LME copper has expanded to 0.73% of open contracts, the most since October, brokers Marex Spectron said.
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Pessimism was the general theme in the wheat market as speculators were either cutting longs or extending shorts in the week ended May 16.
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This stew of dedicated technologists, greedy speculators, and instant millionaires is creating a knot that no SEC auditor will ever be able to untie.
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But before that, speculators had built record short positions, betting the SNB would stick to ultra-low interest rates longer than other central banks.
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Speculators increased their bullish wagers in COMEX gold in the week to April 9, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday.
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Still, those levels showed that market participants remained overall negative on sterling compared with April 2018, when speculators were broadly long the British currency.
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That strongly suggests there is scope for speculators to throw in the towel and liquidate their large short position in the 10-year space.
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At a meeting in August, the China Iron and Steel Association, an industry body, accused speculators of trying to exploit uncertainty about capacity cuts.
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Speculators also boosted their bullish stance in COMEX gold in the week to June 18, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Friday.
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China's official purchasing management index (PMI) dipped to 50.1 April, when speculators had wagered on a steady outcome of 50.5 or even an improvement.
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According to some Twitter speculators, the monstrous chicken overlord is a brahma chicken A.K.A. the "King of all poultry" according to the Livestock Conservancy.
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Facebook will want to be in control to gather data, simplify administration and avoid the currency being targeted by speculators such as hedge funds.
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COPPER POSITIONING/TECHNICALS: Speculators' net short in LME copper has expanded to 0.83% of open contracts, the most since October, brokers Marex Spectron said.
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Ironically, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed speculators boosted net short bets on the dollar to the most since late September 2012.
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Some things should be regulated—he scoffed at the idea that the invisible hand could guide property speculators towards creating a well-planned town.
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In an effort to deter speculators and to cool prices, housing authorities in Hangzhou last week said they would begin to restrict home purchases.
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Brent crude speculators cut their net long positions by 3,508 contracts to 287,828 in the week, according to data from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
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But as a precaution some speculators appeared to have bought back the dollar before Jackson Hole, resulting in the dollar/yen's rise, Ishizuki said.
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In May 2007 speculators were net long a record 119,000 contracts, but the euro didn't peak until a year later at just under $2226.
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The dollar started turning in April and has risen 6 percent since, prompting a stunning $50 billion positioning U-turn from speculators and funds.
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Zinc and nickel also remained in positive territory, as speculators continued their buying spree, fuelled by concern about possible shortages in the two metals.
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A report on the topic of enforcing rules against property speculators is now being prepared for the mayor, the Toronto Sun reported on Sunday.
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The bullish sentiment in gold was underscored by data showing speculators increased their net long positions for a fourth straight week to April 11.
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Numbers released on Friday showed speculators wound back their bets against the pound for a second week running in the seven days to Tuesday.
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Speculators increased their bullish bets in COMEX gold futures and options to their highest in nearly four months in the week to Feb. 16.
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"The recent CFTC data suggests speculators continue to trim short positions and bulls are also returning to the market," ANZ said in a note.
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission positioning data through June 20, also show big speculators' net short position in VIX futures at a record 146,845 contracts.
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Data on Tuesday from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed speculators had nudged up bearish bets on the Canadian dollar.
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While measures of underlying inflation slowed to the floor of the Australian central bank's target range, speculators had been positioned for a weaker number.
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Even with rate hike expectations building, speculators' net short bets on the U.S. dollar rose to their largest in the latest week through Sept.
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Environmentalists have warned that right-wing President Bolsonaro, who took office this year, is emboldening Brazilian loggers, ranchers and land speculators to destroy forest.
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Data last Friday from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed that speculators cut their bearish bets on the Canadian dollar.
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Speculators have remained bullish on the greenback in view of the continuing uncertainties over Brexit and trade negotiations between China and the United States.
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On the NYMEX exchange, bets by speculators on higher prices now outnumber bets on lower prices by 2000,240 contracts, equivalent to 1.4 million ounces.
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The reservations are not transferable, meaning any speculators would need to buy the car outright and then sell it used to a third-party.
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Measures announced early this month will raise capital gains taxes on owners of multiple homes and impose fresh mortgage curbs to rein in speculators.
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Speculators raised their net long position by 15,971 contracts to 57,746 in COMEX gold in the week to March 19, data showed on Friday.
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"I think regulators want to see more active trading... Investors or speculators are all welcome," said a senior manager at domestic brokerage Industrial Securities.
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Although many market participants consider global soybean demand to be strong, speculators are cautiously bullish on the oilseed, reducing optimism in the latest week.
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Noncommercial traders, or speculators, have ramped up their short positioning in VIX futures to a record high of approximately 207,000 contracts, according to Nomura.
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Data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday showed that currency speculators had recently ramped up their bearish bets against the peso.
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The rally has also been driven by short covering by speculators including hedge funds and other money managers, who had amassed record short positions.
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In 1998, Mahathir pegged the ringgit at 3.8 to the dollar, blaming speculators for attacks on Asian currencies that cast the region in crisis.
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Crop "scouts" are made up of people from all corners of the agriculture market including producers, speculators, analysts, and journalists, to list a few.
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Speculators' bullish bets on U.S. crude futures were near July highs while bullish trades on global oil benchmark Brent were already near record highs.
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The last cycle had been driven by investors and speculators on the demand side and very high levels of production on the supply side.
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Speculators have piled on bets in the futures market that the Fed may slow its rate hikes in light of the disappointing inflation data.
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Speculators have reduced to net bullish dollar bets to their fewest in about year last week, Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed late Friday.
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Speculators increased their net long position in COMEX gold for the second straight week in the week to March 26, data showed on Friday.
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Speculators anticipate shortages of road fuels and heating oil since many U.S. refineries are still offline or operating at reduced rates after extensive flooding.
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Early this year, speculators attacked the Saudi riyal and other Gulf currencies as cheap oil pushed the state finances of those countries into deficit.
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Its dizzying run higher has been fueled more by speculators playing the bitcoin market much as they would shares in a hot tech startup.
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The market, where refiners can buy Renewable Identification Number credits to comply with their renewable fuel obligation, has attracted speculators, driving RIN prices higher.
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However, with the Chinese monetary authority taking effective measures to stabilize the value of the yuan, those speculators are expected to suffer huge losses.
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"We do not see, for the moment, additional selling pressure in the coming week as market speculators absorb this much-needed mood," Morganlander said.
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Data on Friday from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed that speculators cut their bearish bets on the Canadian dollar.
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This means that it is less subject to the influence of speculators and "hot money" investors who chase news headlines for short-term gains.
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The apparent lack of control from Johnson has led some currency speculators to assume that a "hard" or "no deal" Brexit can be avoided.
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Brent crude speculators raised their net long position by 3,922 contracts to 224,121 in the week, according to data from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
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It sees 7 to the dollar as a big psychological barrier, and Beijing has struck a defiant tone against speculators betting against the renminbi.
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Financial markets and speculators might see the euro as an untrustworthy currency, throwing into doubt the premise of stability and strength its founders envisioned.
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In northern and central China, some speculators even deliberately tried to spread the disease by using drones to drop contaminated pork products into farms.
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The group is a "collective of unhoused and insecurely housed mothers, organizing to reclaim vacant homes from real estate speculators," according to its website.
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Still, those levels showed that market participants remained overall negative on sterling compared with April 2018, when speculators were broadly long the British currency.
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NEW YORK, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Speculators' net long U.S. dollar positioning climbed in the latest week, matching levels seen during the week of Dec.
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Real estate speculators set their sights on the Big Island almost immediately after Hawaii became the 50th state admitted to the Union in 333.
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MCUSTX-TOTAL CU-STX-SGH SPECULATORS: The net short in LME copper was at 8203% of open contracts on Friday, brokerage Marex Spectron said.
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Activists in Munich are planning a demonstration in March to protest against rising rents, displacement by speculators and real estate companies and forced evictions.
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Speculators in other asset classes have known for a long time that options offer the ability to limit losses and create unique payoff profiles.
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MNI22-0.93 MCU20.9-220 MAL2700-3 SPECULATORS: Hedge funds and money managers cut their net long position in COMEX copper in the latest week.
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Speculators took out more than 87,000 short contracts on the peso and just over 22,000 long contracts during the week that ended Jan. 3.
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Given the time of year, this is unusual behavior for speculators, who typically like to play on the long side of the oilseed market.
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Speculators are snapping up a new virtual currency known as Zcash that was designed by university academics and built to be all but untraceable.
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Siebel-Achenbach cites one report suggesting that as many as sixty per cent of those who resettled in the Wrocław district were such speculators.
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Speculators have cut their bullish bets on the Canadian dollar, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed on Friday.
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Mexico's central bank has fueled some uncertainty, having tried to fight speculators on Thursday by selling at least $1 billion in a surprise intervention.
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In a note to clients Friday morning he pointed out that speculators' net long positions in gold are at the lowest in 18 months.
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Investors in Europe disagree on the outlook, however, as latest data from the InterContinental Exchange showed speculators raised bullish Brent crude bets last week.
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POSITIONING: Speculators' net short position in LME copper has expanded to 2620% of active contracts - the largest since September, according to broker Marex Spectron.
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Predatory land speculators would search for a person who had recently inherited land this way and was willing to sell his or her share.
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Nickel's "hope" premium, as it were, is being reinforced by physical stock building on the part of both the battery supply chain and speculators.
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On the other hand, speculators pared their T-bond net shorts to 103,937 contracts from previous week's 138,382, which was the highest since June 2007.
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Most tokens are currently going up in value, which has attracted a large number of speculators who aren't looking for workers or forgiveness of sin.
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Speculators have piled into U.S. futures in recent weeks, with trade data showing more than 75 percent of funds in the market holding long positions.
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At the moment, the biggest thing that speculators are focused on is CME Group's decision to offer Bitcoin Futures to its customers beginning next month.
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Reflecting increased investor interest in gold, speculators raised their net long position in COMEX gold in the week ended June 4, data showed on Friday.
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PRESSURE DOWN UNDER In the currency markets, Australian and New Zealand dollars both fell as speculators wagered both countries could see interest cuts next week.
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Although the dollar tends to underperform when risk appetite grows, data on Friday showed speculators bolstered their net long dollar position in the latest week.
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Data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed on Friday that speculators have cut their bearish bets on the Canadian dollar.
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He notes that speculators were mostly betting on an OPEC failure, and that big oil consumers may need swiftly to protect themselves against rising prices.
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Speculators raised their net long positions in gold by 27,138 contracts to 204,204 contracts in the week, CFTC data showed, the most since late September.
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Yet in this year's hot ICO environment, it has become more likely that they are speculators who want to capture the token's increase in value.
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The blame-shifting game is well underway, with the United States blaming OPEC, Russia faulting U.S. sanctions, and Saudi Arabia blaming speculators for escalating prices.
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Speculators also increased their bearish wagers on COMEX gold in the week to April 23, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday.
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"Speculators came into the market very early to put heavy pressure on dollar/yen," said Yukio Ishizuki, foreign exchange strategist at Daiwa Securities in Tokyo.
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Among other bond and interest rates contracts, speculators raised their net shorts in five-year T-notes to 170,167 contracts, the most since April 11.
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Warmann said speculators have driven up the price of the credits to the point his company spends $500,000 each day to comply with the program.
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Nervous investors piled more money into the dollar, as speculators' bullish bets in the greenback grew to their highest level since December 2016 last week.
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The reduction in speculators' net short positions of almost 200,000 contracts in that period is the second largest two-week fall in bearish bets ever.
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Before the move, the peso was gaining due to a rally in the oil market that was already forcing speculators to unwind bets against Mexico.
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Spot gold, which has shed about 7 percent over the past three weeks, is expected to stabilise after many speculators ditched long positions, Briesemann added.
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But now the speculators on Wall Street, which is what they do, and this is how you -- so now it gets to the housing bubble.
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There has never been a comparable shift from bearishness to bullishness among speculators over such a short space of time in the last 22017 years.
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Gasoline inventories barely moved, and this has convinced speculators that there is little reason to be optimistic about a draw-down in supplies of gasoline.
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Officials have argued that the amendment would deter speculators who rush to buy land in proposed locations for public projects to profit from inflated compensation.
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Speculators had raised long dollar positions to $37.2 billion, the highest level since December 2015, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday.
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While speculators raised their bullish stance in gold and silver in the week to July 16, silver registered a higher addition of net long positions.
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Prime-broking refers to the arrangements by which banks provide trading lines and the credit that speculators use to make big leveraged bets on currencies.
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Make no mistake about it: this crisis is enriching Wall Street investors and real estate speculators -- and making it impossible for many families to survive.
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"The slowing pace of the rally is beginning to cause a few concerns for short-term bullish speculators," said Fawad Razaqzada, technical analyst for Forex.com.
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DUBAI, March 0.73 (Reuters) - Rising oil prices boosted Qatar's stock market sharply on Monday while a pull-back in speculators' favourite Arabtec restrained Dubai's bourse.
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"Speculators are trying to generate a climate of tension so that (bondholders) will get rid of their bonds at a lower price," said Del Pino.
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In South Africa, analysts say the bulk of demand comes from collectors and speculators betting that the global trade ban will one day be lifted.
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In his three-hour speech Mr Maduro once again blamed shortages, inflation and a weak currency on an "economic war" waged by speculators and foreigners.
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Brent crude speculators also raised net long positions by 23,429 contracts to 322,035 in the week to March 26, data from the Intercontinental Exchange showed.
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Speculators slashed "short" bets against the pound to 32,995 contracts in the week to last Tuesday, bringing them to the lowest since March last year.
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Speculators increased their bullish dollar bets in mid-February to their highest level in four weeks, Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday showed.
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Speculators may have also been purchasing yuan in the offshore market and then selling it in the onshore market to take advantage of the arbitrage.
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Brent crude speculators also raised net long positions by 13,429 contracts to 322,035 in the week to March 26, data from the Intercontinental Exchange showed.
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Brent crude speculators also raised net long positions by 13,429 contracts to 30.43,035 in the week to March 26, data from the Intercontinental Exchange showed.
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On Friday, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed that speculators have cut their bearish bets on the Canadian dollar.
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Signifying an uptick in investor sentiment toward bullion, speculators increased their net long positions in COMEX gold in the week to May 28, data showed.
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Data on Friday showed speculators slightly trimmed their long positions on the pound - bets that it would rise - in the week up to last Tuesday.
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We'd also point out that that the Commitments of Traders data shows long positions held by speculators have fallen sharply over the past two weeks.
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A rush of new investment into crude futures was also pushing up prices as speculators raised their holdings of Brent futures to a record high.
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DETERRING SPECULATORS Yin said that the tax, like income tax, will set a minimum tax-free threshold to protect the interests of average home owners.
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Dubai's index edged down 0.2 percent as Emaar Properties was flat after two days of falls, while local speculators' favourite GFH Financial gained 0.6 percent.
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Speculators have ramped up long dollar bets, with the latest positioning data showing net positions rising to $27.24 billion for the week ending March 1.
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Hedge funds and speculators active in U.S. futures markets turned against emerging FX in favour of the dollar for the fifth week in a row.
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Data on Friday from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Reuters calculations showed that speculators have raised their bearish bets on the Canadian dollar.
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The country is due to hold local elections on Sunday, with authorities trying this week to stabilize the lira by pressuring speculators shorting the currency.
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Although the dollar tends to underperform when risk appetite grows, data on Friday showed speculators bolstered their net long dollar position in the latest week.
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Hedge funds and other speculators have turned more bearish toward crude and refined products in the last two months amid signs of a gasoline glut.
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Speculators pushed net long positions on the yen to their highest in eight years, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday.
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Speculators pared net bearish bets on the dollar to their lowest level in more than a month, Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed on Friday.
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Gold prices slumped to three-week lows on Friday as disappointed speculators liquidated long positions despite fresh trade skirmishes between the United States and China.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Speculators are not yet ready to ditch the wildly bullish wheat story, though they remain cautiously bearish toward Chicago-traded corn and soybeans.
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Net short contracts on the euro EUR= were reduced substantially, with speculators holding the lowest number of net shorts on the continental currency since July.
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"It's basically a class of really stupid speculators who have convinced themselves that trees grow to the sky," he told CNBC's "Futures Now " last week.
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Speculators in Brent crude futures and options raised their bets against a sustained price rise to the highest level on record in the latest week.
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It should not be used to pay a bunch of Wall Street speculators while they try to cut services for the people of Puerto Rico.
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The latest example is that some radical speculators tried to short sell the Chinese currency yuan, which has been depreciating against the U.S. dollar recently.
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Speculators hold a larger short position on LME lead than any other metal at 22 percent of open interest, according to LME broker Marex Spectron.
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Prices in London, for decades a magnet for foreign investors and speculators, will fall 1.5% this year and only hold steady in 2020, the Nov.
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"Right now, the speculators are pressing me on three major issues: marijuana, cryptocurrencies and the stock of Micron, " the "Mad Money " host said on Monday.
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The speculators bought cheap land on the outskirts of town and then built transportation that went there before selling the land for a tidy profit.
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But the number of people using Bitcoin to buy things was always small compared with the number of speculators buying it because of its scarcity.
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The move stunned real-estate speculators, developers, and renters who had rushed into the Long Island City neighborhood to be near the new HQ2 development.
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