speculators
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As bond yields rose to their highest levels in decades, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed speculators had taken aggressive bets that prices would continue to fall.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
To fund the government, the U.S. is now increasingly dependent on volatile demand from leveraged speculators in the form of basis trades.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
The big monetary guns appear to be deterring currency speculators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Heavy speculative positioning can result in messy outcomes when it suddenly reverses, swinging global markets violently as speculators are forced to cut borrowing in unrelated areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Investment bankers and speculators, as they saw it, made no productive contribution to society.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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