Sentences with phrase «hedge your bets after»

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LONDON, April 30 - A popular hedge fund bet on a fall in Sainsbury's shares came unstuck on Monday after the supermarket group announced plans to merge with Walmart - owned rival Asda.

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters)- A popular hedge fund bet on a fall in Sainsbury's shares came unstuck on Monday after the supermarket group announced plans to merge with Walmart - owned rival Asda.

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.

«This was after all the headlines are saying hedge funds have never bet this much on rising oil prices, in the history of oil trading.

LONDON A popular hedge fund bet on a fall in Sainsbury's shares came unstuck on Monday after the supermarket group announced plans to merge with Walmart - owned rival Asda.

After working briefly at Warburg Pincus, the private equity firm that owned an equity stake in Mattel, and at Island Records, where he was director of corporate development, he joined Lafer Equity Investors, a New York hedge fund, where he learned the «craft» of risk arbitrage — betting on the outcome of mergers and acquisitions and other «event driven» opportunities.

Grace is not about heaven or a post-mortal existence or guaranteeing a future occurrence because grace is not about having an after - life insurance policy or hedging our spiritual bets.

Hedging — Placing bets on the opposite side after you have already placed a wager on one side.

But the reigning Masters champion is hedging his bets about how successful his old nemesis will be after a nine - month hiatus following Woods» fourth back surgery.

Also known as hedging, placing bets on the opposite side after you have already placed a wager on one side can be used to either cut your losses, or guarantee a profit.

Klein on Monday hedged his bets on whether Democrats would be able to gain a clear majority in the Senate and appeared to edge away from an agreement made in June to form a new coalition with the mainline conference after Election Day.

The DA hasn't endorsed Lazio's primary opponent, Carl Paladino, either, but, like many Republicans, he appears to be hedging his bets until after the Sept. 14 election... just in case.

Now that Labour appears to have come down firmly on the side of a softer Brexit, after months of hedging its bets, there's a renewed focus at Westminster on whether Tory rebels can defeat Theresa May and keep the UK in the customs union.

Nicoletti said lots of people are «hedging their bets» until after the September primary to decide where they will give.

An informal poll of more than 100 scientists by Swindle in 1997, right after the first announcement of possible biological relics in ALH84001, showed that most of the community was already hedging their bets.

After his recent string of self - directed box office disasters, Kevin has wisely hedged his bets here by casting Duvall as Charlie's boss and best pal.

After Burry makes his bet at Goldman Sachs, Wall Street banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) is informed of Burry's strategy, and decides to uses this knowledge to persuade hedge - fund manager Mark Baum (Steve Carell) that he too should invest millions in credit default swaps.

He mentions Norshield Asset Management, a Montreal - based fund of hedge funds that collapsed after allegations of fraud, and Abria Financial Group, which had a fund wiped out after a hedge fund it invested in made a bad bet on natural gas prices.

The rule was named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and is meant to keep banks from hedging bets that put their customers in danger, one of the banking practices that led to the recession in 2008.

After all, the value of a mile almost always goes down over time due to airline devaluations, so why not hedge your bets and use your miles as quickly as you earn them?

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.

Now, adding fuel to the fire, while investors expected OPEC to stabilize markets, as usual, the cartel announced after its November meeting that it would not cut supply to support prices and the Saudi oil minister stated there would be no intervention in oil markets even if prices dropped to $ 20 a barrel — at which point animal spirits and hedge funds betting on continued oil price increases wrested control from supply / demand fundamentals.