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Playing with the words of “uncertain origin” is like solving a puzzle: at its most imaginative but speculative worst, it amounts to a guess founded on assumptions and other guesses; and at its best, it is the formulation of a plausible solution based on a handful of genuine if limited clues that in the end also amount to a guess, albeit an informed and educated one.
Last year, the world was astonished to hear that a young employee of the ancient British firm Barings had lost more than a billion dollars in speculative trading, quite literally breaking the bank.
One study performed a DNA microarray analysis on CMV infected cells and observed an upregulation of 258 cellular mRNAs whose level changes were by a factor of 4 or more after the onset of viral replication [ 76 ] . The functions of some of these genes still remains highly speculative, yet it gives an insight as to what potential roles these genes may play, particularly in EBV reactivation.
Indeed, copper futures have been the object of massive speculative selling by the likes of George Soros, precisely because informed players believed that Hamanaka was keeping the price at artificially high levels, and that it would eventually plunge.
21 Therefore, it is not surprising that most replenishment products are basics or fashion-basics with relatively stable demand: Manufacturers are unwilling to hold speculative stock to meet replenishment requests from retailers for fashion products because the risk of holding those fashion goods in finished goods inventory is too high.
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