ポジショントーク

noun

spreading self-serving information in financial markets

Originally a financial term for spreading baseless information to benefit one's own position in the stock market or similar contexts. Now also used more broadly.

wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from position talk

• アナリストのポジショントークに惑まどわされないように注ちゅう意いが必ひつ要ようだ。

  You need to be careful not to be misled by analysts' self-serving talk.

noun

self-serving statement; talk that benefits one's own position

Generalized use: any statement or opinion that is clearly intended to benefit the speaker's own interests or stance, not necessarily financial.

• 彼かれの意い見けんはどう聞きいてもポジショントークにしか思おもえない。

  No matter how you listen to it, his opinion just sounds like self-serving talk.

• 政せい治じ家かのポジショントークにはうんざりだ。

  I'm fed up with politicians' self-serving statements.