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Example sentences for: speculators

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It's set in the Kansas Territory, shortly before the Civil War, when the area was an anarchic battleground between Northern abolitionists, poor pro-slavers from Missouri, and speculators out to make a buck.
(Hong Kong is vulnerable to speculators right now for the same reason.)
Hong Kong would have to draw heavily on its own reserves and on those of China to support the market in the face of selling by currency speculators."
Unlike the 1980s, when the economy's leading figures often seemed to be people like Michael Milken and Boone Pickens, who were "speculators" in that classic populist sense of the word, the people who get the most attention and respect today are almost all businessmen who spend their time making things, not playing with other people's money: Bill Gates, Michael Dell, or whoever.
Healthy corporate earnings reports and near-zero inflation in the consumer sector turned stock speculators exuberant.