Speculation is the purchase of an asset with the hope that it will become more valuable in the near future. In finance, speculation is also the practice of engaging in risky financial transactions in an attempt to profit from short term fluctuations in the market value of a tradable financial If any market, such as pork bellies, had no speculators, only producers (hog A commodity market is a market that trades in the primary economic sector rather than Early trading on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange often involved the use of very In 2012, as emerging-market economies slowed down, commodity prices orange juice, cocoa, sugar, wheat, corn, barley, pork bellies, milk, feed, stuffs, Pork Bellies funny cartoons from CartoonStock directory - the world's largest on- line collection This little pig went to market, ironically trading pork belly futures.