Sentences with phrase «big dollar bet»

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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.

The euro fell to a two - week low versus the dollar, for its biggest weekly drop in two months, as investors trimmed record high bets before a European Central Bank meeting next week where policymakers are largely expected to signal no change in policy.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

After seeing millions of dollars invested in fantasy eSports and eSports betting sites over the past few months, the first big eSports company acquisition has finally happened.

The U.S. government paid these obligations at 100 cents on the dollar, despite AIG being insolvent at the time and requiring a $ 185 billion taxpayer bailout itself for making casino - like bets with the big banks.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

He tells the crowd around him how he won a bet in Nebraska: a bribed official in the Big Eight Conference «misofficiated» an important football game, and Jack, who was privy to the official's chicanery, won hundreds of dollars on the game.

You know it's been a bad offseason when the big win for the front office is that they saved a million dollars on a player who chose to bet on himself.

Ever since Wenger said after the West Brom debacle that he had made his mind up but hadn't told anybody his decision, I have been keeping an eye on the bookies to see if there is any big movements in the «Wenger to be the Arsenal manager next season» market, simply because there is no such thing as a secret nowadays, and if the Boss has made his mind up you can bet your bottom dollar that someone else knows what it is and will tip off his mates on the quiet...

2) OZIL if he would have not been our biggest signing, you can bet your bottom dollar that he would be warming bench on a permanent basis, he is great player no doubt, but not for ARSENAL, I will always say OZIL was never the same since that defeat at ETIHAD against Man City, when BFG had to reprimand his attitude after the game.

The public knows little of the million - dollar bets made on our top horses by racing's big syndicates.

With 76 % of dollars landing on the side that's getting less than 50 % of bets, you can safely assume that the bigger, sharper wagers are coming in on Jacksonville, especially when you factor in the 1.5 point line move towards the Jags.

Books in Las Vegas have also begun swaying towards the Seahawks despite big bets on NE: David Purdum reported last night that The Mirage in Las Vegas has 60 % of money on Seattle despite taking a million dollar bet on the Patriots earlier in the week.

The Orioles are only getting 30 % of bets but it accounts for 62 % of dollars, another sign that smart money is taking a shot on the big road dog.

CNBC is debuting a new sports betting show «Money Talks,» describing the program as following tout «Steve Stevens, his stable of agents and the clients who risk big dollars in the hope these guys have the expertise to consistently deliver winners.

Or, if they begin performing pull ups using their body weight and then progress to hanging an extra 20, 40, 60 pounds or more from a weight belt, you can bet your last dollar that their biceps will grow steadily bigger each step along the way.

Which is to say, if it's big in Korea, you can bet that it's going to be the next billion - dollar global product.

How in the world do you spend billions and billions of dollars and get no results — especially after Secretary Duncan promised it would turn around 5,000 failing schools and hailed it as the biggest bet of his tenure?

Co-founders Aylon and Jeff, together with Alex Hernandez, make the case for why K - 12 should invest significantly more in R&D — making smart bets on «big problems» every year — while radically changing how those dollars are allocated.

One of the biggest battery drainers would be the display of the Android device, and with such handsets coming with larger and larger displays, you can bet your bottom dollar that the battery life is going to suffer even more.

I would be willing to bet my bottom dollar that 99.9999 % (I might be missing a few nines) of all indie authors would love to have the problem of decreased sales due to this legal battle because that would mean they have a BIG 5 contract and are selling a lot of books.

This arcane - sounding market is no small potatoes; it actually comprises several billions of dollars» worth of bets by aggressive hedge funds — the same type of big bettors who blew up so memorably earlier this year, Amaranth and Motherrock.

There is a big gambling culture in Australia, so do like the locals do and get involved by sticking a few dollars on something — there is no shortage of sporting events to bet on.

Activision Blizzard will now be betting big on eSports being that revenue stream; desperately hoping it can take a spectator sport that is still widely misunderstood by the mainstream — not to mention considered a niche by aging and hastily irrelevant traditional sport broadcast networks — and make good on its multi-million dollar investment.

You can bet you bottom dollar that even of it is released it'll cost over # 30 as all big titles are.

Big - dollar investors can bet their assets on renewable energy in new low risk environment, according to new report from the sustainable investment organization Ceres... Read More →

The heir to a banking fortune, Mellon's bet on Ripple paid off big, catapulting his crypto wealth to close to a billion dollars.

When you're betting hundreds or thousands of dollars, that difference is meaningful — which is why this will make a big difference in how bets will be made.»