Sentence examples for consider a speculative from inspiring English sources

Driven by the strong performance of American business, and by what people now consider a speculative boom, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index more than tripled between the start of 1995 and the spring of this year.

Our model should therefore be considered a speculative framework from which future studies can be launched.

Yale balked at trading a significant naming opportunity for what it considered a speculative commitment, and Schwarzman did not give the money.

In 2007, I traveled to Dubai, where Mr. Rubenstein was speaking at a conference and raising money for a new Middle East fund that, at the time, was considered a speculative bet.

In other words, Sony is considered a speculative investment right now and it will become harder for the company to borrow money.

Replacement value, or RV, analysis – adding up how much a company's assets would cost if you had to replace them – has long been considered a speculative tool for figuring out how much a company is worth.

Or consider a more speculative scenario: some pharmaceuticals show the promise of blunting the "high" of cocaine use or reducing antisocial thoughts of the sort that often lead to crime.

We consider them a speculative buy.

We have warned our readers that we consider this a speculative investment, but the one-page Tear Sheet we recently published pointed out the possibility of investing using what is known as a "strangle" – simultaneously buying both a long-term call and a long-term put option.

In turn, he said his company was negotiating with two tenants to build a distribution center for each and "for the first time in a long time also is considering building a speculative warehouse".

At the end of January, bond credit rating agency Moody's cut Sony's rating from Baa3 to Ba1, meaning that it now considers the company a speculative investment.