Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SPECULATION HOME OR SPEC HOME OR BUILT ON SPEC - A house built before a buyer has been found, on the as...
  
  
• SPECULATIVE - Securities that involve a high level of risk.
  
  
• SPECULATIVE DEMAND (FOR MONEY) - The need for cash to take advantage of investment opportunities that m...
  
  
• SPECULATIVE MOTIVE - A desire to hold cash in order to be poised to exploit any attractive investment o...
  
  
• SPECULATIVE POSITION LIMIT - The maximum position, either net long or net short, in one commodity futur...
  
  
• SPECULATIVE SPACE - Any tenant space that has not been leased before the start of construction on a new...
  
  
• SPECULATIVE STOCK - Very risky stock.
  
  
• SPECULATIVE-GRADE BOND - Bond rated Ba or lower by Moody's, or BB or lower by S&P, or an unrated bond.
  
  
• SPECULATOR - When you invest in futures contracts or buy or sell options strictly to take advantage of ...
  
  
• SPEED - The rate at which an MBS prepays. An MBS with little or no prepayments is said to have a slow s...