to speculate on the stock market

  • 1stock market — n. 1) to gamble, speculate on the stock market 2) the stock market closes; opens (the stock market closed strong) * * * [ stɒkˌmɑːkɪt] speculate on the stock market opens (the stock market closed strong) the stock market closes to gamble …

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  • 2Stock Market Crash Of 1987 — A rapid and severe downturn in stock prices that occurred in late October of 1987. After five days of intensifying stock market declines, selling pressure hit a peak on October 19, known as Black Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)… …

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  • 3speculate — spec‧u‧late [ˈspekjleɪt] verb 1. [intransitive] FINANCE to buy goods, shares, property etc in the hope that their value will increase so that you can sell them at a higher price and make a profit, often quickly: speculate in • Investors may… …

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  • 4speculate — v. 1) (D; intr.) ( to meditate, think ) to speculate about, on (to speculate about what might have been) 2) (D; intr.) ( to conduct business by taking risks ) to speculate in; on (to speculate in oil shares; to speculate in gold; to speculate on… …

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  • 5speculate — verb 1) they speculated about my private life Syn: conjecture, theorize, hypothesize, guess, surmise, wonder, muse 2) investors speculate on the stock market Syn: gamble, venture, wager …

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  • 6speculate — verb 1) they speculated about my private life Syn: conjecture, theorize, hypothesize, guess, surmise; think, wonder, muse 2) investors speculate on the stock market Syn: gamble on, take a risk on, v …

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  • 7The Millionaire Next Door — The book The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America s Wealthy (1996, ISBN 0 671 01520 6) is by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko. This book is a compilation of research done by the two authors in the profiles of… …

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  • 8Bucket shop (stock market) — Bucket shop is a brokerage firm that “books (i.e., takes the opposite side of) retail customer orders without actually having them executed on an exchange. [http://www.cftc.gov/opa/glossary/opaglossary b.htm Glossary, US Commodity Futures Trading …

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  • 9market — /ˈmakət / (say mahkuht) noun 1. a meeting of people for selling and buying. 2. the assemblage of people at such a meeting. 3. an open space or a covered building where such meetings are held, especially for the sale of food, etc. 4. a store for… …

  • 10market — n. store, shop 1) a fish; food market; hypermarket (BE); meat; open air market; supermarket 2) at a market (to shop at the market) place where trade is conducted 3) a stock market 4) a flea; open; overseas; spot market 5) on a market (to buy oil… …

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