Sentences with phrase «dollar bet»

He even famously put a million - dollar bet on that, and so far he's been right.

This feature allows users to analyze how dollars bet impact a game.

If that is your criteria, I'll make you a big dollar bet..

Users have always been able to use the percentage of tickets within their systems, but this new feature allowed us to take a deeper look at how the percentage of dollars bet affects things.

Consider this: billionaire Warren Buffett made a million - dollar bet with hedge fund managers that he could beat actively - managed investments over a ten - year period with index funds.

Thankfully, the great Warren Buffett showed us that's not true with a million dollar bet against hedge fund manager Ted Seides.

Venrock, the venture capital arm of the financial empire began by John D. Rockefeller, is placing a multi-million dollar bet on the bright future of cryptocurrency.

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

In 2015, Ackman, the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square, announced his multi-billion dollar bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); he proceeded to lose nearly his entire investment, or $ 7.7 million every day for about two years, as Valeant stock sank 95 %.

For the massive, multi-million and in some cases billion dollar betting companies, do you not think they'd have the resources to actively pursue inside information?!? «Hmm my source says this is extremely likely to happen... We're still paying over the odds for it not to happen as the media is yet to catch wind of it..

Do the intervention when traders are overconfident, and pressing their bearish dollar bets too aggressively.

One investigator described dog fighting as a «huge underground subculture» with different tiers from two people fighting their dogs just to find out who is tougher, to those who breed and train dogs for fights that involve gambling, to those that breed, train, and feed the dogs as if they are professional athletes and organize and operate the fights as a business with high dollar bets.

It's convenient that Cohn's new position does not require Senate confirmation since exactly what he knew about Goldman selling bogus investments to its clients while the firm made billions of dollars betting the instruments would fail might be raised in Senate questioning of Cohn's fitness to serve.

The financial geeks took multimillion - dollar bets against Wall Street's big gamble on subprime mortgage bonds early in the game, ultimately made wild money and have an incredible story to tell.

Wilma Woo · April 8, 2018 · 10:30 am Venrock, the venture capital arm of the financial empire began by John D. Rockefeller, is placing a multi-million dollar bet on the bright future of cryptocurrency....

As Ditka publicly down - played Perry's role, the odds soared to as high as 75 to 1, potentially earning bettors $ 750 in winnings for every ten dollars bet on Perry to score.

He left a conference room where they were meeting to discuss placing a multimillion - dollar bet with the firm's money that the dollar would rise against the yen.

As Shell picks a path forward, it's trying to hedge its billion - dollar bets.

But the «Oracle of Omaha» has had a bit of a rough patch of late, even losing some ground in his 10 - year million - dollar bet (for charity) as Fortune's Carol Loomis reported.

The mustachioed Liveris leaves Dow having made multibillion - dollar bets on American energy, survived two activist investor battles, and dramatically reshaped a company nearly sunk by the financial crisis.

As a long - time advocate of passive investing in low - fee index funds (in fact, he's on his way to win a million - dollar bet on an index fund), Buffett also has some strong opinions on the value of high - fee investment structures like hedge funds and mutual funds.

The first modules have rolled off the line in Ohio as part of First Solar's $ 1.4 billion dollar bet on its large - format Series 6.

Geithner says, wait a minute, American banks have made huge billion - dollar — maybe, for all we know, a trillion - dollar bet that the Greeks will repay.

VCs place dozens of million - dollar bets every year and fully expect to lose almost all of them; the strategy is that for every hundred Cuils (a one - time presumed Google killer), one Google - size payout (or a few) will put them in the black.

He's the guy who is involved in a million dollar bet that the S&P 500 Index will outperform a professional actively managed fund over a ten year period.

Nearly a decade ago, Warren Buffett made a million - dollar bet: that by investing in a completely unmanaged, broad - market low - fee index fund, he could beat the gains earned by a high - powered hedge fund with a team of managers at the helm.

A multibillion - dollar bet on China.

• Thaler: When Congress cut TSA's agency budget last year, long lines appeared this year (NYT) • Wall Street's New Balance Sheet Is an ETF (Gadfly) • Corporate America Chases the Mythical Millennial (NYT Mag) • Gold: The History of An Obsession (Irrelevant Investor) • Higher Taxes Don't Scare Millionaires Into Fleeing Their Homes After All (Bloomberg) • 2005: The new money men: Investors have made a trillion - dollar bet that hedge funds will bring them rich returns.

Last year 48 cents of every dollar bet on the lotteries went for prizes.

I lost 30 dollars betting on arsenal to win both halfs.

Now a 10 dollar bet on Perry would only earn back 20 bucks.

Even in an inflationary economy there is no safer and better return on your money than the 40 cents profit you get in the fall from the dollar you bet in the spring that the Yankees will win the pennant.

If we look at the percentage of dollars feature that can be found on our live odds page, we can see that six out of every ten dollars bet on the spread are on Kentucky.

But it seems a safe million - dollar bet that it won't tuck that tidy Wankel away in the attic and just forget it.

Although hockey is one of the least popular major sports — both in terms of fans and dollars bet — some consider it a «money sport» because of the large number of games played.

The original idea for this system was looking for teams that weren't receiving very much public support but were receiving a majority of the dollars bet on the game.

Each time this happens, an oddsmaker might expect to lose $ 0.15 for every dollar bet in that time frame (from middles and the cost of offering a good price on the other side).

But the author, a neuroscientist and former Wall Street derivatives trader, sees the roots of the crisis extending much deeper, into the very body chemistry of the traders making the multimillion - dollar bets that drive the global financial system.

One more «return to the dollar bets matches to recoup losses and start over» sequence and most of the audience would be shaking their heads with disbelief.

As you may have seen, last month Warren Buffett won a million - dollar bet.

Burry now had more than a billion - dollar bet on the table and couldn't grow it much more unless he attracted a lot more money.

Much has been made of Warren Buffett's million - dollar bet, hatched at the start of 2008, with the money management firm Protégé Partners.

As if those statistics weren't scary enough, the rules of currency trading allow investors to leverage every dollar they bet on a 50 - to - 1 ratio.

My brother and I had placed a 20 dollar bet on a custom season in an old NASCAR game which I won.

This is a frank bet — probably about a million dollar bet — by the manufacturer that journalism is meaningless.

Some of these «students» have already been innovating, and barely over a month ago Dan Reicher of Google came to talk about THEIR billion dollar bet on green energy.