Sentence examples for speculators made from inspiring English sources

By 2011, pure speculators made up a staggering 61% of the market.

Speculators made fortunes buying and reselling Harlem land, among them Oscar Hammerstein I, Henry Morgenthau and August Belmont.

Speculators made money, governments benefited from lower borrowing costs and nobody complained.Yet this seemingly benign scenario may have been unhelpful in the long run.

But a recent study of eleven commodities markets found that when speculators made up forty per cent or more of the market, prices were roughly half as volatile as they were in markets where speculative trading was less prevalent.

No doubt, some short-term speculators made money in bear funds, which seek to profit from declines in stocks or bonds, but investors who held onto their shares this spring did not.

It is only a small step then to argue that as business types, from private security forces to real estate speculators, made a mint out of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans, why not suspect that they wanted, indeed willed, the levees to collapse?

But Joe Nocera writes that while speculators make easy targets, they're not the reason prices keep climbing.

Speculators make money in a month.

Let the speculators make money on the short side and help drive energy prices lower.

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to bet against a bubble, particularly one so distended by its lure to millions of new speculators, making its end ever more difficult to predict.

"Where is the food going to come from, unless 'evil speculators' make a lot of money?