So people use contracts for differences to do short term speculation in stocks, not physical purchases: moving to another legal structure rather than another legal jurisdiction if you like.

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The boom had been built on sand: housing speculation, overvalued stocks, reckless deregulation, irresponsible deficits.

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My guess is that commodity speculation would slow, stocks would rise, real estate would stabilize and begin to climb, and small businesses would start investing in their future once more.

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Nothing is official yet, but as mentioned, Nintendo and Sony stocks are already up in Japan just based on mere speculation the ban could be lifted.

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Stocks have been on the rise recently, thanks in large part to speculation that the Federal Reserve will engage in more quantitative easing to spur the economy.

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Despite growing optimism and speculation about a housing recovery, the technical picture for top homebuilding stocks Pulte Group and KB Home remains a house of horrors.

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But investors seem to be taking another approach, using the F5 disappointment to sell off a host of networking stocks that have seen their share prices rally on a combination of improving fundamentals and rampant takeover speculation.

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Since these dates stocks declined and the bond yield fell, as weaker than expected economic data and earnings warnings trumped the market speculation due to quantitative earnings.

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