Sentences with phrase «big bet»

He often made big bets on things he had high conviction in.

Millionaire investors are making big bets on stock and bond markets right now, but for a questionable reason: politics.

Executives said they hoped to improve the chain's performance by placing bigger bets on lunch and upcoming soccer tournaments.

When it comes to the business of big bets, it doesn't make fiscal sense for books to offer huge limits on events that allow the player to gain an overwhelming edge.

They periodically make big bets in new lines of business.

He started his career at a time when hedge funds were known and prized for taking big bets, even at the risk of suffering big losses.

As the world adopts more electric cars, the world's largest electronics and battery makers are making big bets by securing partnerships.

A lot of them find that at least right now, we can take really big bets as a private company.

Although some people will use leverage to make a single big bet on a stock, a more conservative approach is to put together a diversified portfolio.

Why make big bets if no one was asking for them and competitors weren't doing so.

For those reasons, it is important to avoid big bets.

Many people had small, very early bets on the company but the question was whether I was going to take the first big bet.

Just like bankers, publishers need to be wary of making big bets based on shaky financial fundamentals.

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The duo shifted away from buying individual buildings and toward acquiring whole companies, an approach that gave them greater flexibility with assets and compelled bigger bets.

He's placing big bets on high - risk cases, and then working them like mad to win.

Chinese companies have also been placing big bets on American companies.

«The idea of taking big bets and losing lots of money for very small market share gains isn't very sensible,» he said.

But with interest paid on savings accounts low, Chinese investors appear willing to make big bets on stocks and real estate.

Google just unveiled its progress with Google Assistant, the AI voice assistant the company introduced last year and revealed what's next for Google's next big bets for search.

That has changed recently, with big bets in IBM and Apple.

Over these past two years, we have shined a hot lamp on the problem — political handwringing, using yesterday's funding levels to solve tomorrow's challenges, expecting state and local governments to place big bets when the national government won't make long - term commitments, and applying 20th century policy to a 21st century context.

The investment would be the latest big bet from SoftBank's Vision Fund, a $ 98 billion pool of cash that is striking massive deals in some of Silicon Valley's flashiest companies.

Melbourne - based Tabcorp, Australia «s biggest betting company, has a market value of A$ 4.1 billion.

Robert's strategy for Downton depends on big bets paying off bigger.

Three «Star Wars» movies have come out since 2015, and Disney is placing even bigger bets on the brand — developing two new film series and several TV shows based on the space opera.

Even with the significantly lopsided betting percentages, the line has dropped 1.5 points at Pinnacle, indicating big bets on Connecticut have driven this line movement.

The fledgling company's next big bet was producing an electric rice cooker that was widely panned as being capable of little more than ruining a bowl of rice and leaving you with a wooden tub to clean.

With the current generation of Windows, we made a pretty big bet on touch and mobility.

Singapore - based United Overseas Bank is a quiet force among the many overseas lenders putting bigger bets on New York property.

Druckenmiller also highlighted fellow hedge fund billionaire George Soros as his second mentor, noting that Soros taught him the importance of making just a few big bets (that is, holding concentrated positions instead of being diversified).

Back then, of course, Apple was a much smaller company, so $ 150 million was a relatively big bet.

Theodore J. Forstmann, the financier who has said that he will not raise a new last investment fund, made what was likely to be his last big bet yesterday by acquiring a private fitness company for $ 1.6 billion.

When these players beat you, it can make you wonder whether you should be playing differently — maybe you should start playing more hands, or calling big bets with weak draws, since it seems to be working so well for that guy.

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The lawmakers want to know exactly how big the bets are that these financiers are placing on lawsuits and are concerned by the opaque nature of the lending agreements and their impact on our nation's legal system.

There have been many big bets laid on the Arsenal transfer rumours that our superstar Alexis Sanchez could be keen to join Chelsea, after his quoted comments while he was on international duty with Chile, and it was obvious that the Blues boss Antonio Conte was going to be quizzed on his thoughts about Alexis after today's home Chelsea defeat by Crystal Palace.

Pinnacle opened this game at Iowa -7 and big bets early in the week helped drive the line down to the current number of Hawkeyes -3.

I think we made a lot more big bets than that, so I think you're actually oversimplifying.

LONDON, April 23 - Hamstrung by a renewed slump in volatility and lack of clear market direction, FX and bond speculators are making historically big bets on a lower dollar and higher yields.

But the really big bet is HoloLens and the «mixed reality» holographic platform, both powered by Windows 10.

Hence, they are comparatively cautious than their North Indian counterparts who possess the old money cushion that drives bigger bets and larger risks,» states Ashok.

To be sure, he has made money on his Apple bet so far, but his recent bigger bet on Apple's future growth is unlikely to pay off as well.

Expect bigger bets on juices, energy drinks, and plant - based / dairy offerings as Coke aims to remake itself to align with the healthier options consumers are gulping.

The company's biggest bet remains squarely on consumers — which Engel finds risky.

But Buffett is a long - term investor, so this third big bet on oil says more about his faith in oil prices a decade from now than it does about his outlook for tomorrow's prices.