#speculation

• Cornering — The act of monopolizing and its result; gaining exclusive control over a resource, space, market, or collective attention, often through coercive, speculative, or abusive methods. In macroeconomics and geopolitics, it describes the process whereby powerful entities appropriate agricultural territories (land grabbing) or strategic resources to the detriment of local communities.
• Profiteering — A practice or mentality oriented exclusively toward obtaining quick and substantial profits, often by exploiting economic situations, utilizing methods on the verge of legality, or completely neglecting ethical and moral principles. In contemporary language, the term carries a distinctly pejorative connotation, denoting a unscrupulous chase for wealth rather than legitimate and honest commercial activity.
• To speculate — To practice agiotage; to engage in speculative stock market operations based on the fluctuations of share, bond, or currency rates to secure a quick and often illicit profit. In a structural and historical sense, the action describes the artificial manipulation of the market by exploiting differences between the nominal and commercial value of credit securities.
• Agiotage — A speculative stock market operation consisting of buying and selling securities, shares, bonds, or currencies to gain a quick profit from the difference between present and future rates. In a structural and legal sense, it often represents an artificial manipulation of the financial market, achieved by spreading false rumors or through monopolistic maneuvers.
• Agiotare — The act of practicing agiotage and its result; the process of conducting stock market speculation or manipulating value rates. In a structural linguistic sense, it represents the noun of action derived from the verb 'a agiota', rarely used in specialized literature to define the dynamics or the actual act of exploiting price variations.