speculators

Olivier de Schutter, UN rapporteur on the right to food, is in no doubt that speculators are behind the surging prices.

联合国食品权力事务特别报告员，坚信投机者们推动了价格的浮动。

Nevertheless, the argument that the price rise is all down to speculators is far from proven.

尽管如此，认为价格升高主要是由于投机者哄抬的看法仍然缺乏根据。

As is often the case, some are blaming the participation of speculators for these moves higher.

像往常一样，有人把上述农产品价格的上涨归咎于投机者的参与。

It's just a PR phrase invented by the White House to stick single-family mortgage deadbeats into the HAMP and leave out the speculators.

这只是白宫发明的一个公关术语，以便将有抵押债不还的单一家庭列入HAMP方案中，而把投机者排除在外。

Bafin, the German regulator, said on March 8 there was no evidence speculators using credit default swaps contributed to Greece's woes.

德国联邦金融监管局（Bafin）在3月8日曾表示，没有证据表明，使用信用违约互换的投机者加剧了希腊的困境。

But that doesn't explain most of these moves. Instead, as with crude oil, this seems to be mainly about speculators jumping in.

但这并不能解释金银价格在大多数时间里的走势。相反，跟原油一样，它们的走势似乎主要与投机者的趋之若鹜有关。

Morgan Stanley borrowed more, as its chief, John Mack, was complaining that the bank was target of speculators betting it would fail.

摩根士丹利借得更多，因为当时首席执行长麦晋桁（JohnMack）抱怨说，公司成了投资者下注它倒闭的目标。

The rally is best explained by the ease with which speculators and industrial buyers can find funds to bid up the clearing price.

对于此轮上涨最好的解释是，投机者和行业买家很容易获得资金以推高结算价格。

That makes them reluctant to mail the keys to the bank and walk away if the market weakens, although a few speculators do so anyway.

这让他们并不愿意在市场走弱的时候将房屋留给银行，而自己选择离开，不管怎么说仍然会有一些投机客会这样做。

But in the case of oil prices, it's hard to see that speculators are playing much of a role.

但在油价的案例中，很难看出投机者起到了多大作用。

The obvious answer was that they were focusing on "investment grade" luxury housing targeted at speculators.

答案很明显，因为投资者着眼于“投资等级”的豪华住宅，将其作为投资目标。

America's politicians are not the only ones to have fingered speculators for the feverish rise in the price of oil and other raw materials.

美国的政客们不只是唯一染指投机者从而导致石油和其他原材料价格疯狂上涨的人。

Brokerage offices that were almost empty a year ago are now packed with young and old would-be speculators.

一年前，证券营业部大厅还是空荡荡的，如今则挤满了老老少少的准投机者。

' He also said there was no evidence that position changes by speculators 'precede price changes' for crude-oil-futures contracts.

他还表示，没有证据表明投机头寸的变化先于原油期货合约价格的变化。

In fact, the decline was triggered by demand for the dollar from speculators trying to cover large short positions in that currency.

事实上，此次韩元的走弱是由投机者对美元的需求而引发的，他们需要大量美元进行补仓。

"Speculators are still positioned for risk appetite, but the market is going the other way, " he said.

“投机客仍在为风险意愿建仓，但市场走势相反。”他表示。

But Chalk believes that the restrictions on speculators introduced so far treat the symptoms, not the causes, of the malaise.

但乔克认为，迄今为止推出的限制投机者的措施是治标不治本。

Most of it is MANIPULATION of the markets by speculators who were losing their shirts and are now (rightly) being kicked out of the markets.

大部分是受到市场上投资者的操纵，他们已经输得一穷二白，现在又要被踢出市场了。

Also, it is not simply a question of the Fed declining to bail out financial speculators who took on excessive risk.

此外，问题不仅仅是美联储拒绝为承担过度风险的金融投机者纾困那么简单。

'Concern and fear translate into greed, and speculators take [any news of refinery outages] and hype it into much higher prices, ' he said.

他说：担惊受怕变成了贪婪，投机者将任何有关炼油厂停产的消息都放大成油价将猛涨的信号。