Thankfully, the great Warren Buffett showed us that's not true with a million
dollar bet against hedge fund manager Ted Seides.
Not exact matches
Chinese
bets against the renminbi have snowballed since Beijing let it fall by 2 %
against the
dollar in August 2015, the first revaluation in years.
On Friday, the
dollar index was up 4 % from its lows of the year hit on February 16, as traders found it increasingly expensive to
bet against the
dollar's decline.
The
dollar clawed back some ground
against the buoyant euro and traders
bet on further U.S. rate hikes this year.
Recently, at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, legendary value investor and Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) CEO Warren Buffett said that if you are looking to place a
bet against the
dollar, or that interest rates would soon rise, you should just take out a plain vanilla, 30 - year fixed mortgage.
But here's the real problem with Buffett's advice on
betting against the
dollar: you have to buy a house, or own one.
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.
The Play: After a private meeting with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary John Paulson on the impending financial crisis on September 16, 2008, Bachus — then the Ranking Member on the House Financial Services Committee —
bet against the stock market, netting himself tens of thousands of
dollars.
Gold edged down on Monday, retreating further from last week's 3-1/2 month high as the
dollar clawed back some ground
against the buoyant euro and as traders
bet on further increases to U.S. interest rates after Friday's payrolls data.
China has gazillions of
dollars in the bank, and just as in poker,
betting against the richest man at the -LSB-...]
WisdomTree's yuan ETF is heating up as investors start making
bets China's currency is heading higher
against the
dollar for all kinds of reasons, the latest a couple of reports suggesting the Chinese government is ready to let its currency start rising again.
You'll remember that fellow hedgie John Paulson started a gold fund as a way to
bet against the US
dollar.
You'll remember that hedge fund «rockstar» John Paulson has designed a fund to
bet against the US
dollar as he clearly feels the currency is in trouble.
The data buoyed U.S. stocks and helped lift the
dollar to a 5-1/2 - year high
against a basket of currencies as traders brought forward
bets on the timing of the first rate hike.
In this week's matchup, the Vikings -LRB--6.5) are receiving 84 % of spread
bets and 86 % of total
dollars wagered
against the Houston Texans.
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.
This weekend the Cowboys (+4) are receiving 48 % of spread
bets and 45 % of total
dollars wagered
against the Green Bay Packers.
WHITEHOUSE: Indeed, I'll
bet you
dollars against those lovely Krispy Kreme donuts we have out back that if you went down to the University of Alabama and if you talked to the people who fish out of mobile, they had already seen the changes in the ocean.
Eventually, Mark Baum (an excellent Steve Carell, playing the only man of the bunch who confronts a moral crisis when faced with the prospect of making millions of
dollars off the pain and suffering of millions of people), a walking B.S. detector who is still grieving the recent suicide of his brother, and a pair of independent brokers named Charlie Geller (John Magaro) and Jamie Shipley (Finn Wittrock) get involved in their own
bets against the housing market.
It is simply an active
bet that the US
dollar will decline
against the loonie.
Apart from being treated as a safe
bet, hedge
against inflation and
dollar, in the last few years it has been treated as the best investment option by central banks, billionaires, investors, portfolio managers and even by speculators.
Our low beta factor is
dollar neutral, but not beta neutral, unlike the popular leveraged
betting -
against - beta (BAB) factor (Frazzini and Pedersen, 2014), which is beta neutral but not
dollar neutral.
The Canadian
dollar is also a great liquid hedge
against a falling U.S.
dollar — and is probably the best
bet for a physical cash investment for Americans.
Hard currency funds are, at base, a
bet against the falling value of the US
dollar.
Betting against the
dollar would be his new trade.
I have nothing
against billion -
dollar satellite missions, and I
bet Sorge and his companions got sticky, but all in all, the jam jars were a sound scientific investment.
Futures trading gives new investors the choice to
bet against Bitcoin and also allows them to settle contracts in
dollars, boosting their liquidity.
The company used leveraged positions, meaning users effectively
bet BTC
against bitcoin fluctuations, which were gauged
against the US
dollar.
DAO.Casino (CURRENCY:
BET) traded 16.1 % lower
against the US
dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 23:00 PM E.T. on March 22nd.
Matsumura's example can be confirmed by recent investors getting burned trying to short GBTC's stock and the millions of
dollars liquidated from Bitmex, Bitfinex, and Okcoin traders trying to
bet against bitcoin's value every day.
The first is because the investor wants to
bet their net - worth
against the
dollar and other established currencies.
Even though TCW Group says CMBS sold in 2012 and 2013 might fall as low as 20 cents on the
dollar, the firm isn't
betting against them because it's hard to know when the wagers might pay off.