hot money
noun [ U ]
ukus FINANCE
money that is moved, for example, from one bank or country to another, to make a profit from high interest or exchange rates:
Wouldn't the hot money attracted by high rates be moved when these rates fell?
FINANCE
money that can be easily identified if it is stolen, for example, bank notes that have a mark on them:
The hot money contained new bills with consecutive serial numbers.
informal
what people who know a lot about a subject think will happen:
But the hot money is on rates going up again next month..