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Betongold
“Concrete gold.” Signs of an incipient housing bubble in Germany in statistics from ZDF heute journal, which reports that many investors, especially Greeks and Spaniards, are buying urban German real...
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Finanztransaktionssteuer auf Wertpapiergeschäfte
“Financial transaction tax on securities transactions.” The responsible EU commission has submitted a draft proposal for a tax of 0.1% on transactions in stocks, loans, shares in investment and money...
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“Wie wäre es, wenn…?” und “Warum nicht?”
“What if?” and “Why not?,” questions filmmaker Alex McDowell said fiction writers bring to the art and science of speculating about the future.
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Außerbörslicher Schattenhandel
“Off-market shadow trading,” which der Spiegel says is also known as over-the-counter trading, done directly between speculators such as bank traders. May exceed trading in the (regulated) markets....
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Spotmarkt
Spot market, where financial instruments or commodities are sold for immediate delivery, unlike the futures market where they are sold for delivery at a later date. Wikipedia said a spot market can be...
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Ölpreis
In 2011 a Goldman Sachs study apparently stated that market speculation had indeed helped drive up the price of oil for consumers. In 2012 U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Bart Chilton said,...
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Erdgaspreis
Price of natural gas. A March 2013 article in Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal mentioned that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said the Libor benchmarks manipulation scandal came to their...
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Kupferpreis
Price of copper. After lobbying by firms claiming reducing copper supply would not drive up copper prices, in December 2012 exiting U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary L. Schapiro gave...
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Neue E.U.-Grenzen für Spekulation mit Nahrungsmitteln
New E.U. limits on food speculation. As part of the reforms to the E.U.’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive [much more comprehensible in German: financial markets guideline,...
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