1.   Speculators could not use them, she said.

2.   Speculators use derivatives to make leveraged bets in financial markets, while corporations often use them to hedge their risks.

3.   Speculators were using limited companies to purchase flats and exploiting existing legislation which allows companies to pay less tax on property transactions.

4.   Speculators used financial havens to shield themselves from scrutiny as they focused on Asian and Latin American currencies, government officials said.

5.   Speculators used the system to place orders on stocks in the hope they could close their positions at a profit before share certificates had to change hands.

6.   But Uchibori said that such comments are often used by speculators to move the market.

7.   Currency dealers speculated that the new measures might involve changes to regulations governing the trading of commercial papers, especially those used by speculators to bet against the baht.

8.   Mahathir has demanded new rules in the global currency trading system that he says is used by speculators to damage weaker economies.

9.   Taiwan has not approved any local sales of Soros funds for fear the international hedge speculator could use the money raised to make attacks on Taiwanese financial markets.

10.   Traders suspected that short-term speculators may have used the rumors to lift the dollar.