11.   Few independent analysts, however, believe it would be possible to weed out speculative investment from legitimate investment without scaring off desperately needed foreign funds altogether.

12.   He has learned the value of a diversified portfolio and stays away from speculative investments he knows nothing about.

13.   Indeed, the trading card business has been hurt by recent strikes in professional baseball and ice hockey, and a boom in buying cards as speculative investments.

14.   Instead, most have plowed their money into buying industries or speculative investments.

15.   Investors would rather put their money in companies with some cash flow or assets, and leave these types of speculative investments to venture capitalists or equity investors.

16.   Little heed was paid to the fact that speculative investment can flow out as fast as it flows in.

17.   Nonetheless, unless you qualify as a person with the appetite and wallet for speculative investments, I suggest you take that course.

18.   Options are speculative investments because they have only a limited life.

19.   Sinochem claims in its suit that Lehman made bad bets on foreign interest rates swaps, mortgage-backed securities and other speculative investments without getting proper approval beforehand.