11.   Construction and real estate companies -- heavily saddled with debt from the end of the speculative bubble era -- were also sold off.

12.   He contended that equities were experiencing a speculative bubble, though the stock market persistently defied him by rising ever higher.

13.   He will do so to take some air out of what he believes is a very dangerous speculative bubble.

14.   I think it is merely a very extensive speculative bubble.

15.   In December, he expressed concern that a speculative bubble in the markets could fuel a boom-and-bust cycle in the economy.

16.   In December, U.S. stocks plunged after investors interpreted Greenspan remarks to mean there might be a speculative bubble in the prices of U.S. assets.

17.   It has been clear for at least a year that Wall Street was being inflated by a speculative bubble.

18.   It is now clear that the lending and buying spree that Japanese banks and businesses engaged in here was part of a speculative bubble that has long since burst.

19.   It seems a speculative bubble, but such periods of investment mania foster a rapid pace of business experimentation.

20.   Many took his remarks to mean the Fed was about to raise interest rates in an effort to prick a speculative bubble.