Sentences with phrase «companies hedging their bets»

«I've heard stories of companies hedging their bets with some of the eurozone economies,» Langrish says, explaining that some have set up accounts to pay their employees in euros should their home country exit the eurozone and reintroduce its old currency.

Another company hedging its bets this way is Skiff LLC, an e-reading company developed by media conglomerate Hearst Corp. that hopes to funnel content to devices from various producers.

If anything, the two industries may be converging, as we see mutual fund wraps using ETFs as the underlying investments and of course we are also seeing some mutual fund companies hedging their bets by buying into some ETF manufacturers.

While aggressively lobbying for an end to the ban on oil exports, fossil fuel companies hedged their bets by contributing millions of dollars to Super PACs dedicated to a Republican majority in the Senate.

The move, which follows Nike opening Nike + to HealthKit as well as the sports company hedges its bets in the health wearable space, will allow Android users to integrate their Fuel scores into an overall fitness plan.

Not exact matches

Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.

Nearly four - and - a-half years after Bill Ackman bet $ 1 billion that Herbalife stock would fall — a losing bet so far for the hedge fund manager — the nutrition products company is approaching what many investors see as a watershed moment, the final test that will determine which side was right.

As the U.S. - based industry awaits that ruling, companies are looking in other countries to hedge their bets on a global, import - export industry.

Icahn also told CNBC on Thursday that he has made $ 1 billion on paper on his long bet on Herbalife, a company that fellow hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman bet against and recently closed his disastrous position entirely.

Glenview's Larry Robbins also lost more than $ 23 million in his hedge fund, as his pro-Obamacare bets on healthcare companies turned sour: Hospital Corporation of America (hca) stock dropped 11 %, losing him $ 127 million; and Tenet Healthcare (thc) stock plummeted 25 %, taking another $ 90 million from Glenview's portfolio.

The storied VC firm, which made a name for itself with early bets on companies like Oracle and Google, has invested millions in two blockchain startups — Orchid Labs and Filecoin — and two cryptocurrency hedge funds, MetaStable and Polychain Capital.

Ackman, who runs hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP, has been betting against Herbalife shares since 2012, claiming the company is a pyramid scheme — where new investors unwittingly fund the profits of older investors.

Instead of buying a specific asset class like a company's stock or a currency, futures and options contracts allow traders to profit from their bets on future prices and to hedge losses on what they already own.

In addition to hedging Disney's bets, Iger's comments also serve as a very obvious warning shot across the bow of cable companies and other distributors.

Well - known hedge fund investor Bill Ackman is betting that troubled Mexican fast - food chain Chipotle is «an eminently fixable company»

«These hedge funds are putting on what we call paired trades,... betting against one company with huge Chinese exposure and going long a similar company with little to no Chinese business,» he said on Friday.

A tech hedge fund manager who made a big bet on cloud management company Box says his investment is paying off.

Sources close to the firm say that Elevation has several deals in public and private companies that haven't been announced that hedge it's not - so - hot Forbes and Palm bets.

The snappily dressed former Facebook executive, who co-founded Social Capital in 2011, made early bets on Bitcoin, started a hedge fund, and raised $ 600 million to help startups go public through an unconventional vehicle known as a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company.

If I would have split my Pizza Pizza investment into four different stocks I would have given myself a comparable income stream while hedging my bets away from one company.

Second, the company appears to be hedging its bets on its partnerships by owning more of the self - driving value chain.

In fact, a low - cost index of large global companies, the MSCI All Country World Index, almost exactly matched hedge - fund returns during the same nine - year period of our bet (and international stocks actually lost money during that period.)

The initial profit warning on July 10th 2017 saw the share price tumble and hedge funds double down on their bets against the company's survival.

During the session in the Commons, Creagh said many UK firms have registered companies in the Republic of Ireland to «hedge their bets» due to uncertainty regarding regulations and policy following the Brexit vote.

He's optimistic about the company's future but knows he has to hedge his bets — as he once failed to do in his academic career.

Companies prefer to hedge their bets on vaccines that show at least a 70 percent effectiveness rate, Fauci noted at the briefing.

So far NASA is hedging its bets, spreading out money to a variety of companies, each of which is creating a different kind of vehicle or program.

The company's touch - y interfaces have been receiving some complaints recently, so to hedge their bets, Ford has stuck some old - fashioned knobs and buttons on there, too, for redundancy.

But it appears to be hedging its bets by picking up what it thinks is «an innovative company» that works across multiple mobile platforms.

If I would have split my Pizza Pizza investment into four different stocks I would have given myself a comparable income stream while hedging my bets away from one company.

BOSTON, Nov 30 (Reuters)- Hedge fund mogul David Einhorn has lost 20.6 percent this year as a bet on solar company SunEdison cratered in November, extending losses of his Greenlight Capital and putting it on course for its first losing year since the financial crisis.

Meanwhile, the two companies were hedging their bets by paying off members of the colonial government to prevent the co-operative from obtaining an export licence.

The problem is, with no commercial release of the Oculus Rift yet announced, companies producing triple - A titles with VR support are hedging their bets in terms of developer time allocation.

«Our company is in effect making a massive bet — with shareholders» money — that the world will remain addicted to oil for decades, even as its competitors are taking steps to hedge their bets,» the group wrote.

Many of these companies are simply hedging their bets, spreading money on a variety of development efforts on the theory that something will work, says Zindler of New Energy Finance.

He's a hedge fund speculator who bet on companies that were going to receive government subsidies.

Policies that are deemed risky (for example: a homeowners policy for a house in a high crime neighborhood or a comprehensive auto policy for a person with a poor driving history) are likely to cost the insurance company more, so they charge a higher premium to hedge their bets.

Of course, Apple works on many products that never see the light of day so it's possible the company is just hedging its bets.

Lenovo will be releasing a Windows Mixed Reality HMD later this year as well, so the company is hedging its bets.

In some cases, companies may also be hedging their bets — if they haven't sent out an official rejection, they can still reach out to candidates in the future if a prospective hire doesn't work out after all.

Within 15 days of graduating from college, Rose had her real estate license, though she hedged her bets for a while, working in real estate part - time while on the fast track at a Fortune 500 company.