currency speculation

collocation in English

meaningsofcurrencyandspeculation

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currency
noun
uk
/ˈkʌr.ən.si/us
/ˈkɝː.ən.si/
the money that is used in a particular country at a ...
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speculation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌspek.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌspek.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
the activity of guessing possible answers to a question without having enough information to ...
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(Definition ofcurrencyandspeculationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is not an external exchange rate shock but the standard macroeconomic shocks in the two countries that drive the risk premia on returns fromcurrencyspeculation.
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I believe that, in some instances, we should pool some sovereignty to get more effective control overcurrencyspeculationand our own economic affairs.
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As a result, the real economy would be much less affected by internationalcurrencyspeculationthan it is now.
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It could help reduce short termcurrencyspeculation, and it could raise significant resources to reduce poverty.
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Does that co-operation bring nearer the date when it will be possible to operate an international tax oncurrencyspeculation?
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In other words, we must try to inoculate the economy as far as possible fromcurrencyspeculation.
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We may very well have a single currency between the 12 but that does not mean to say thatcurrencyspeculationwill not go on.
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There is no special rate of tax for gains fromcurrencyspeculation.
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Good has come out of a crisis that happened, mechanistically, at a peak period ofcurrencyspeculation.
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It is a question of finding a mechanism to check short-termcurrencyspeculation.
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What effect will it have on markets andcurrencyspeculation?
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They cannot produce a tax on internationalcurrencyspeculationby themselves; it must be a matter of massive international agreement.
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Internationalcurrencyspeculationinvolves exchanges of money worth up to $1.5 trillion a day, mainly unrelated to trade in real goods and services.
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This is the equivalent of four days of global military spending and 9 minutes of internationalcurrencyspeculation.
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One of the assets of a single currency is that one cuts outcurrencyspeculation.
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It is not intended to give facilities for the flight of capital, forcurrencyspeculationor for arbitrage between one currency and another.
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Many of the problems of disruption in the third world have often been associated with earlier occurrences ofcurrencyspeculation.
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It would be interesting to know what profits are made fromcurrencyspeculation.
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Our group has serious doubts, however, as regards the proposal to introduce a tax oncurrencyspeculation.
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I do not agree with him that we need a tax oncurrencyspeculationbut certainly we need to avoid this kind of movement.
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