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 speculative ['spekjuleitiv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 思索性的, 投机的, 推测的

[经] 投机的, 冒险的




    speculative
    [ adj ]
    1. not financially safe or secure

      2. <adj.all>
      a bad investment
      high risk investments
      anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky
      speculative business enterprises
    2. not based on fact or investigation

      3. <adj.all>
      a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs
      speculative knowledge
    3. showing curiosity

      4. <adj.all>
      if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive
      raised a speculative eyebrow


    Speculative \Spec"u*la*tive\ (sp[e^]k"[-u]*l[.a]*t[i^]v), a.
    [Cf. F. sp['e]culatif, L. speculativus.]
    1. Given to speculation; contemplative.

    The mind of man being by nature speculative.
    --Hooker.

    2. Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical;
    not established by demonstration. --Cudworth.

    3. Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive;
    curious. [R.] --Bacon.

    4. Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares,
    etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.

    The speculative merchant exercises no one regular,
    established, or well-known branch of business. --A.
    Smith.

    5. (Finance) More risky than typical investments; not
    investment grade.
    [PJC] -- {Spec"u*la*tive*ly}, adv. --
    {Spec"u*la*tive*ness}, n.

    1. The large speculative trading firms Refco Inc. and C&D Commodities were big sellers of both soybeans and wheat, despite disagreement among private and government forecasters about the 6-to-10 day outlook.
    2. It will take more than one sell-off to end the speculative fever in new issues and biotechnology shares, he says.
    3. The initial margin on futures trading on the Simex was raised from Y1m to Y1.25m, while additional margin was raised from Y800,000 to Y1m. Activity centred on speculative issues.
    4. By acquiring $34 billion of foreign currency, the monetary authorities have taken a speculative position that yen, D-marks and other currencies will appreciate in relation to the dollar.
    5. My personal pension scheme has therefore taken a modest stake in Norcros. However, the review's portfolio cannot be too speculative.
    6. With the September 20 Maastricht referendum still a week away, it would have been difficult to fend off speculative attacks against the franc. The speculation against the ERM in September was unprecedented.
    7. 'Peruvian debt is a speculative buy,' he says. Brazil, on the other hand, has removed much of the attraction of converting foreign debt into equity.
    8. Soybean and corn futures closed sharply lower Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade in a late sell-off led by the Iowa Grain Co., a large, speculative trading firm, analysts said.
    9. In part, analysts suggest, that's because the Boston-based maker of razor blades, pens and toiletries has been in play so long that most of its speculative potential is gone.
    10. The bill pushes S&Ls back into home mortgage lending and out of risky investments such as speculative commercial real estate projects and junk bonds.
    11. With a $6 million loan, the developer had bought the open land to prepare it for speculative projects.
    12. My own tendency would be to emphasize the fact that we had a very bad speculative outbreak once before with most disagreeable consequences and that what happened before could happen again.
    13. The overall steadier trend was prompted by a constructive close on Tuesday and by speculative interest.
    14. "Mieno's historic role is to take the cap off of one of the most impressive speculative markets we've had anywhere in the world since the war," says Kenneth S. Courtis, senior economist at Deutsche Bank AG's capitalmarkets division in Tokyo.
    15. Copper futures prices soared in sympathy with a boom in aluminum and because of renewed speculative demand.
    16. Other electronic blue chip issues were also lower, with Hitachi down Y11 to Y839 and Matsushita Electric Industrial retreating Y30 to Y1,410. Dealers sought speculative favourites.
    17. The 30-year Treasury bond, often the hardest of the refunding issues to place due to its status as a speculative instrument, will have $2 billion less sold than the amount sold at last November refunding.
    18. Cool Canadian air caressing the Midwest brought down temperatures to comfortable double-digit levels, but it didn't break the speculative fever gripping Chicago's commodity markets.
    19. A renewed No would create 'a very bad situation' for Denmark, above all by putting fresh speculative pressure on the krone.
    20. The new government, grappling with its first crisis, has begun work on an economic program aimed at restoring public confidence in the shekel and ending a speculative run on the dollar.
    21. Higher Thursday were incentive-backed or speculative shares such as Sumitomo Metal Mining, up 200 yen to 1570 yen (up $1.41 to $11.09).
    22. Merrill Lynch analyst Gerald Lewinsohn recently told investors that Home stock wasn't just "speculative" anymore; it was "high risk" after completing the Carteret deal.
    23. And Polaroid seems to have most of the speculative appeal.
    24. It seems the more speculative the fund, the more popular it is.
    25. Although the dollar got much of its lift this week from speculative players, dealers yesterday observed buying interest among longer-term institutional investors.
    26. Mr. Hatcher said the rush of speculative interest in the pound may have worried the British government, which would prefer more stable exchange rates as it prepares to release its federal budget later this month.
    27. The average weighted annual default rate as of Aug. 15 was 3.79% of the total value of outstanding junk bonds, which are high-yield speculative grade corporate bonds that have low credit ratings or no credit rating at all.
    28. That allowed the speculative element to move prices higher in tandem with the other markets." Cotton futures prices have since come back down to around 60 cents a pound.
    29. Some of this may be speculative but the publication of the illustrative sources for the Palm Room and the Painted Room in particular seem to be exhaustive.
    30. After failing to thwart such speculative traders in past offerings, John Nuveen & Co. says its recently launched Premium Income Municipal Fund has "galvanized a securities-industry solution" to flippers.
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