While futures speculation appeared to have affected prices in the short term only, efforts to reduce such speculation might have unintended, longer-term consequences, the paper said.

该报告称，虽然期货投机似乎仅给价格造成短期影响，但为减少这种投机而付出的努力可能会产生意想不到的长期后果。

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The steep rise in food prices, she argues, is the result of speculation in the futures markets; the famine is a chance for stricter financial regulation.

她认为，粮食价格的剧增，是期货市场投机活动的结果；而这次饥荒也是严格财政控制的良机。

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Futures markets are already pricing in a slight loosening of the dollar peg-though the UAE's central bank sought to quell speculation on November 22nd by cutting short-term interest rates.

期货市场的定价已经开始疏远美元了。阿联酋为了抑制投机在11月22日下调短期利率。

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Meanwhile, events in two large oil-producing countries are feeding speculation in futures markets.

ECONOMIST: Oil prices

This must indicate the regulators want to wipe out the traders in leveraged gold and silver futures to get speculation and volatility out of the gold and silver markets.

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