JAMB - Economics (2016 - No. 16)

Speculative motive:  A desire to hold cash in order to be poised to exploit any attractive investment opportunity requiring a cash expenditure that might arise.

• We hold cash rather than other assets whose values are falling.
• We hold on to cash to be able to buy them when their prices actually fall.
• So this is money held to play the market.
• It is money held to buy (or sell) bonds, depending on one's expectations of future interest rates.