Sentence examples for speculative operations from inspiring English sources

But the most popular man in Mrs. Merkel's first government, Economics Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, said last week that while higher working capital ratios were necessary to hinder speculative operations — what, speculation in Germany?

In addition to their high-flying speculative operations, both AIG and Lehman operated traditional banking units that engaged in boring bank activities like accepting deposits and extending loans.

Then he would rein in finance, reforming banks with a law to separate their loan-making business from their "speculative operations".

DealBook R.B.S. Proposes 'Souped-Up Version of the Volcker Rule' | In a report to Britain's Independent Commission on Banking, the Royal Bank of Scotland has put forward a restructuring proposal that would require British banks to ring-fence their speculative operations from their core functions, Sky News reports.

Players in dice-rolling speculative operations have long claimed that their trades "stabilized" the system by enabling investors to hedge risk, but the recent financial crash has exposed that defense as being without clothes.

Monds blamed this state of affairs on the "speculative" operation of a steam-powered mill, just a short distance uphill.

After the war, backed largely by U.S. capital, Kreuger launched a series of highly speculative financial operations, the aim of which was to secure a monopoly of the production and marketing of matches outside Sweden.

Mr. Eccles was not a fan of big Wall Street firms and their speculative stock market operations; rather, he understood and identified with smaller banks that lent to real businesses.

In a statement after rumors of losses were reported yesterday morning, Bank of America said: "We know of no basis to support speculative rumors about our operations.

Beyond their baseline mode of operation, certain speculative operabonal modes exist that could signiticantly enhance the capability of APT vehicles in the future.

However, he is not as conservative as he was several years ago and can no longer be counted on to eschew speculative gambits and incisive tactical operations.