Sentence examples for commercial speculator from inspiring English sources

Frances Fannyy" Imlay (14 May 1794 – 9 October 1816), also known as Fanny Godwin and Frances Wollstonecraft, was the illegitimate daughter of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator Gilbert Imlay.

Hedge funds and other "non-commercial" speculators have increased their long positions to an all-time high of 555,000 of the main oil contracts traded on the New York futures market, compared to the previous record of 548,000 contracts, set just before the oil price peaked at $120 in June 2014.

Unlike commercial businesses, speculators have little interest in actually taking delivery of oil or other commodities.

Amid rumors that losses from bad loans were mounting and that Chemical was having trouble finding buyers for its commercial paper, speculators were selling its stock en masse and some analysts were describing the bank as the weakest of the large New York banking companies.

Commercial traders and speculators finally flipped back to something like normal behavior.

Speculators speculate more, hedgers hedge more.

Commercial real estate attracted speculators and got bubbly, too, but not to the degree residential markets did.

While the information is dated, it gives the market an idea of the activity speculators and commercial market participants in the metals markets at the time.

Last May, the Bank of Thailand, trying to battle currency speculators, ordered local commercial banks to stop selling baht to foreigners unless they could prove the currency would not be used for speculative purposes.

When it felt confident enough to lower it to 17percenttoto let commercial lending rates relax a little, speculators leaped in.

At the same time, after months of turmoil, anyone still owning Lehman stock or commercial paper had to be considered a speculator.