Sentences with phrase «dollar bet on»

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....

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

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.

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

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.

He says, «Tom, I am not going to make a 40 - year multibillion dollar bet on a 15 - minute price signal.»

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.

A multibillion - dollar bet on China.

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.

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.

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 %.

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.

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.

Since you havent made multimillion dollar bets on risky ventures and I have, you will excuse me if I do nt listen to you about them either.

Not exact matches

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters)- The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will flag more interest rate hikes this week.

LONDON, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. May Day holidays across Asia and Europe meant trading was thinner than usual, though there was more than enough news flow to keep those...

Gold, meanwhile, hit a six - week low of $ 1,307.40 an ounce, as the dollar strength and bets on higher interest rates kept it on the slide having already gone dropped through its 100 - day moving average.

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.

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 declinOn 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 declinon 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.

The dollar's rapid rise, following Donald Trump's November 8 election victory, shows little sign of abating, with investors betting on a positive outlook for the U.S. economy in anticipation of additional fiscal stimulus.

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.

But here's the real problem with Buffett's advice on betting against the dollar: you have to buy a house, or own one.

Asian shares edged higher on Friday, turning positive for the year, while the US dollar weakened broadly after the Federal Reserve's cautious stance on further rate increases prompted investors to rebuild their bets on riskier assets.

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.

If the dollar carries on the way it's gone the last couple of weeks, these bets will be cut even further.

With Quiznos betting a huge chunk of its marketing dollars on digital video during at a crucial time for the company, we wanted to know the reasoning behind the decision.

If you hedge half of your foreign holdings back into Canadian dollars, you can reduce your risk without making a specific bet on which way a currency will go.

Despite Adobe's decades - long grip on creative industries, venture capitalists are betting they can help startups outmaneuver the behemoth and grab slices of the multibillion - dollar market.

We identified winners that are financially viable and good bets that we want to focus our cannonballs on (push additional resources and follow - on investment dollars towards).

Yet the dollar has kept sliding, and sizable positions have built up betting on a deeper drop.

We believe synthetic gold has been co-opted by risk managers and speculators as a convenient, high - capacity instrument to offset bullish bets on financial assets, the US dollar, and ultimately on the success of radical Fed policies.

The dollar's sell - off was also helped by investors betting on tighter monetary policies by major central banks, bringing them in line with the Federal Reserve.

The dollar's sell - off was also helped by investors betting on tighter monetary policies... Read more

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.

Suppose the margin requirement is $ 500, then we are effectively making a bet on $ 100000 dollars (let us ignore commission and fees).

They are, after all, «hypothetical» and if you are being held accountable for a budget to market your company's solutions — would you bet millions of dollars on «hypothetical»?

By CountingPips.com — Get our weekly COT Reports by Email US Dollar net speculator positions fell to $ -23.42 billion this week The latest data for the weekly Commitment of Traders (COT) report, released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday, showed that large traders and currency speculators increased their aggregate bearish bets for -LSB-...]

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.

At a Cold Spring Harbor meeting several years ago the bet was a few dollars on how many genes humans have.

Ill bet u camping camping crouch hal lindsey copeland hinn any religiose millionaier 1million dollars my soul that the rapture will not happen anytime soon especially in may ever it will only happen on the sabbath saturday midnight after the great tribulation at the 7th trumpet after the anticrhist is revealed and only during the passover april 10th ~ 18th or sept 10th ~ oct 10th only and it wont even get near to happening until sept 2012 will any one take the challenge id love to prove all these peoples false prophets noticed I only gave time day hour just like jesus said not adding to word or calling god a lier or blaspheming like all afore mentioned do every day knowinly lieng and stealing well whos up to it?

Only instead of betting a couple dollars, or the Mortgage, they are laying their eternal life on the line.

For every dollar he throws towards atheism you can bet he write off two on his tax's.

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.

At least, I can choose which ministries I want to support with my money... I don't get to choose which wasteful programs my tax dollars are wasted on... It's just a hunch, but I'm willing to bet that you are a tax taker and not a tax payer... and I mean income tax not sales tax, car tax, and other nominal taxes.

They'll watch them, you can bet your bottom and top dollar on that.

If I believed it were all ending on a specific day you could bet your bottom dollar I wouldn't waste my remaining life warning everyone... I'd be killing every last brain cell available to me and enjoying this incredible planet!

Casella's family wine company, Casella Family Brands, owners of the Yellow Tail label, are betting on the weaker Australian dollar and a move into premium categories to boost profits.

I bet you top dollars that if Arteta was healthy poor Campbell would haven rotten on the bench or traded.