Just two years ago, Beijing was taking the opposite tack - warning potential investors against too much stock speculation.
As a result, we believe the recent speculation around breaking HP up will dissipate and the associated stock rally resulting from this speculation will fade.
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Granted, Bill's got to have something to talk about on stage at CES next week, but we're not putting much stock in the pure speculation of a fresh Seattle Times piece, which, without sources, simply holds that "Microsoft could also make a splash by announcing plans to give the Xbox 360 an internal HD-DVD drive".
Following a period of mass speculation, the stock market had crashed in 1929, and the investing world was looking for a better way.
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On any pull back, Nokia stock is still a reasonable speculation.
But Monster offers plenty of reasons to track the stock, with or without buyout speculation.
Speculation of the major stock sale by this New York-based financier was first reported by the Sunday Times.
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Direct investment by individuals in property and the stock markets is positive, but speculation, or over-investment, can be problematic.
And I would never recommend buying stock purely on the strength of buyout speculation alone.
The stock had already taken a beating after press speculation suggested the company could file after the bell.
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Sometimes you get a stock that looks good as a short-term speculation and maybe a longer term investment.
He dodged questions about whether NYSE would pursue a deal with the London Stock Exchange, which is the subject of some speculation that it will get a bid from Australia's Macquarie Bank.
There was some speculation on Tuesday that Apple would split its stock at the shareholders meeting which rallied the shares.
None of this would matter if the stock markets were in a hermetically sealed box, labelled speculation, insulated from the real economy.
But fresh speculation that JPMorgan is still interested has the stock spiking.
There's no doubt that speculation over Jobs' health has hurt the stock.
Translated: Next time, I swear to God, I'll dump every last tech stock I own the very second I overhear water-cooler speculation about when Nasdaq will overtake the Dow.
The rich payday for Varian holders almost certainly will lead to speculation about the possibility of other deals and trigger higher stock prices for other small- and mid-tier players in the semi equipment sector.
With the stock market tumbling in the third quarter and other warning signals flashing red, there has been speculation that private equity portfolios would be hit hard and show big losses.
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This is the third stock within the Forbes Investor, the investment newsletter I edit, which has benefited from news related to increased speculation of possible private equity deals.
But Sebi chairman, DR Mehta, told the BBC that he was confident the markets would respond well to a measure which will not only curb excessive speculation, but do away with a system which was sometimes used by unscrupulous operators to rig the stock markets.
Market speculation that Cathay may take an equity stake in the airline resurfaced last week, boosting both companies' stock prices.
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