Sentence examples for commercial speculation from inspiring English sources

Largely incubated from the usual urban pressures of commercial speculation or inward migration, the city has nonetheless evolved over the years, expanded and consolidated by successive grands projets in ever more exotic forms.

Readers must imaginatively "work" while reading: their efforts will save them from descending into sentimentality as well as from being lured into commercial speculation.

Painstakingly, she reconstructs Imlay's commercial speculations.

Novak shows that he made large sums of money as a writer, and lost a good deal of it in commercial speculations.

When the amount of speculative capital in these markets overwhelms their usage by farmers and commercial firms, speculation itself has the opportunity to drive prices.

Devon is in charge of "the fund's nascent commercial-realty speculation arm," which is Dee's reticent way of hinting at the essential criminality of mortgage-backed derivatives.

Dubai's problems could be seen as a failed exercise in commercial-property speculation rather than revealing anything particularly new about the global economy.Traders point out that, unlike Lehman Brothers or AIG, Dubai World was not an intermediary at the heart of the financial system, with links to thousands of counterparties.

See articleCIT, a cash-strapped American commercial lender, fuelled speculation that it may have to go into bankruptcy when it said that it was unlikely to get a federal bail-out.Philips, a Dutch electronics company, announced a net profit of €44m ($60m) for the three months to June 30th , 94 lower than a year earlier.

A person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.

A spokesman for Bauer Media said: "We do not comment on speculation around commercial matters".

A Bauer Media spokesman said: "We do not comment on speculation around commercial matters".