speculative
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Stocks are forward-looking and can often be speculative.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
Historical “bucket shops” serve as a parallel, demonstrating how unregulated speculative trading led to market manipulation and eventual crackdowns.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Yet junk bonds might prove more resilient than their loan peers in the speculative credit market in rocky times ahead.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
At first they made money from illegal logging and plantations, later benefitting from a speculative property boom in the cities fuelled by Chinese investors.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
“This is a little more speculative, but can we tell anything about the caller from the times they telephoned? Once close to five a.m. and then again just after nine o’clock at night?”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing speculative
Grade 9, List 1
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act V
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And Then There Were None
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