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hot money

noun

Definition of hot money

: investment funds intended for the highest short-term rate of return

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 South Korean authorities had previously opposed any disclosure of their foreign-exchange operations for fear that speculative hot money investors might abuse such information for profit and destabilize local currency markets. — Kwanwoo Jun, WSJ, "South Korea to Gradually Disclose Foreign Exchange Intervention Details," 16 May 2018 China has curbed outflows of hot money by tightening capital controls. — The Economist, "After a good run of growth, China’s economy braces for bumps," 17 Apr. 2018

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First Known Use of hot money

1936, in the meaning defined above

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