1.   After several years of speculative fever, stock investors again want to see rising profits.

2.   Like other banks, Uneximbank also minted riches, albeit briefly, during the speculative fever that infected the Russian securities market last year.

3.   Most high wine prices, however, are driven by the speculative fever currently gripping the market.

4.   There he attacked the mutual fund industry for fanning speculative fever among investors.

5.   But for others, bird raising is big business, so big that speculative fever has sent bird prices yo-yoing.

6.   More stock purchases are being financed with borrowed money, another sign that speculative fever is rising, Johnson said.

7.   And analysts expressed doubts over whether the speculative fever for Yahoo! was justified.

8.   The speculative fever has driven up prices because of hopes of discovering the next Microsoft.

9.   Oil was one of the few items to escape the speculative fever, but analysts said prices predated the movement with rises last week.

10.   Speculative fever first pushed prices up, then pulled them down.