1.   A short squeeze occurs when speculators bet wrong.

2.   Futures prices have been lower than current prices recently as speculators bet that prices would fall with an expected surge of cattle supplies in the coming months.

3.   Nakai said speculators were betting on further declines in the stock market and their selling was wreaking havoc that was spilling over elsewhere for no good reason.

4.   Now speculators are betting it will get cheaper.

5.   Speculators are betting that Malaysia -- like Thailand and the Philippines before it -- will bow to pressure and stop propping up the ringgit.

6.   Speculators are betting Malaysia -- like Thailand and the Philippines -- will bow to pressure and stop propping up the ringgit.

7.   Speculators bet the dollar would continue to fall and sold dollars, too.

8.   The forward contracts are blamed by some government officials for enabling speculators to bet against the peso.

9.   There are nine times as many speculators betting coffee prices will rise as are betting on a drop, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission figures on coffee futures.

10.   They also adopted rules to make it harder for speculators to bet against the Hong Kong dollar.