That immediately produced speculation that Bayer might be thinking about a corporate overhaul, but that now appears unlikely.
This opinion created a silence in the screening room, and the comment produced speculation about the guilty conscience of the protagonist; was it merely a shoddy tribute to his beloved Hollywood?
But Russia's ceaseless conspiracy mill quickly produced speculation that Chechen militants had split the glacier apart -- or that the film crew had caused the disaster by using explosives during filming.
In the summer of 1861, when Rainilaiarivony was 33 years old, Queen Ranavalona's advanced age and acute illness produced speculation about who would succeed her.
Her death was ruled an accidental drowning, but has produced persistent speculation that was fed last year by a tell-all book, "Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour," written by Mr. Davern and a co-author, Marti Rulli.
The Artists Production Group, one of the most closely watched and whispered-about ventures in Hollywood, is an attempt by Mr. Ovitz, the former uber-agent, to mix a talent and literary management agency with a film and television production company that was unveiled three years ago with great fanfare but has produced more speculation than actual projects.
It's these double-sided imaginative abilities that produce masterpieces of speculation such as Brave New World To quote The Tempest, source of Huxley's title: "We are such stuff / As dreams are made on".
So the next time the wizards of speculation produce yet another financial collapse, who ya gonna call?
Although Syria is not a major oil producer, the speculation has stoked concerns about stability of the Middle East - which is a key oil producing region.
In the report, they state confidently that commodities speculation produced "particularly strong results" (that's a cool $5bn in profits by the way) for the bank in 2009.
