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CDSs' appeal to investors is precisely their Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde quality: They can be both a risk-reducing insurance policy and a speculator's dream tool to profit from corporate and sovereign misfortunes.

Let's Give Some Credit To Credit-Default Swaps Francesco Guerrera 2011

The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations.

Speculating Is Not Investing Mark Matson 2010

One could read this as white women are more racist than white men, but this would probably reflect the speculator's tendency to see racism everywhere.

The Streets Are Paved With Gold...stay home! Steven Barnes 2010

Well Morgan Stanley as but one example, simply took off its bankers hat, and donned a speculator's hat putting down some $80,000,000 at today's prices to buy 2 million barrels of oil.

Raymond J. Learsy: Your TARP Money is Being Used to Prop Up the Price of Oil 2009

The "speculator," if that's what you call CalPERs et. al., has the right to "not participate," one of the most powerful tools in the speculator's toolbox.

Michael Martin: Are Speculators to Blame for Soaring Oil Prices? 2009

Now you're stuck with one last harvest before piling up the worthless crap, and most have no livestock to feed because it was cheaper to throw every last mortgaged dollar you could get into the speculator's confidence game.

The end of the great Corn Boondoggle? Michael Caddell 2008

Now you're stuck with one last harvest before piling up the worthless crap, and most have no livestock to feed because it was cheaper to throw every last mortgaged dollar you could get into the speculator's confidence game.

Archive 2008-10-01 Michael Caddell 2008

If today's towering price of oil reflects some speculator's bet on a long-term scarcity of liquid motor fuels, this will prove the misguided bet of a lifetime.

The Coming Oil Investment Boom 2008

Luckily, the oil bubble, already too big to support itself, was back doored by oil consumption spiraling down and production staying steady -- the price of crude (great name) grew to a point where even the speculator's could see the price was unsupportable.

The Free Market; or Forever Blowing Bubbles 2008

The billionaire currency speculator's hedge fund may have lost at least $120 million on its stake in Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., mostly acquired in the second quarter, as the investment bank suffered its worst financial result.

OBAMA: CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN--NOT, Part One, The Economy 2008