1.   For now, shareholders are big losers, and some options speculators have made a windfall.

2.   Speculators would make multimillion-dollar deals on the sidewalks, and boomers would take turns sleeping on pool tables.

3.   Speculators have been making huge profits this year on practically any company that promises to exploit the commercial potential of the Internet.

4.   Speculators make bets on the prices of commodities by buying and selling futures contracts.

5.   The Chicago Board Options Exchange today introduced new contracts on mutual funds, allowing speculators to make short-term bets while long-term investors can reduce their exposure to market swings.

6.   The rate will jump up and down, and speculators will make a fortune off it while ordinary citizens will plunge deeper into poverty.

7.   The options market, in which speculators can make big bets, is a logical place for gambling.

8.   When prices move, speculators can make money.

9.   The action in Hong Kong focused instead on interbank rates, which rose because of fears that speculators would make an attack on the Hong Kong dollar.

10.   They said speculators had been making fast money on the open currency market after the appreciation of the dollar against all other major currencies.