Sentences with phrase «investor places the bet»

What new platforms are on the horizon and where should investors place their bets?

Investors placing bets on commercial lawsuits have long operated under a veil of secrecy.

The oracles create the broadcasts of information and then the investors place bets on such broadcasts.

Not exact matches

For investors worried that the market is pinning too much on tax - reform prospects — especially as the GOP announced it had to delay by at least one day the release of its plan, which had been scheduled for Wednesday — sectors bets being placed by those with $ 1 million or more in brokerage accounts don't show an overreliance on any single factor.

Shortly after Ackman's initial short position, activist investor Carl Icahn also got involved, placing a bet against Ackman.

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.

Now a group of both new and prior investors, including Himalaya Capital Management, Highland Capital Partners and FirstMark Capital, are placing a big bet that Aereo will continue to survive and thrive.

Most other wine stocks are also off their lows as investors sniff a revival and place their bets on better earnings in the year ahead.

It listed in 2006 and has gained over 3,100 % from its IPO price, suggesting investors are willing to place a bet on what could be the next huge concept in the category.

One way to gauge what the market expects in terms of short - term rates is to look at Fed Funds future contracts, which allow investors to place bets on what where the federal funds rate will be in the future (This long - term view can influence short - term rates).

But one well known investor, Point72 Asset Management's Steven Cohen, is placing his bet on a «crowd - sourced» hedge fund, Quantopian, the latter announced early Wednesday.

Because venture capital is a «slugging business,» investors need to be placing their bets on startups that are playing in a market big enough to feed some serious revenue growth.

With just three weeks left until the new year, investors are debating where to place their year - end bets.

I'm not an investor in Facebook right now — I tend not to place bets based on potential where expectations are high and patience is thin.

The latest example is Hong Kong's stock market, where new programs are allowing Chinese mom - and - pop retail investors to place bets outside mainland China.

From health care to retail, private funds, and beyond, what are the most lucrative investment opportunities in China and where should investors place their future bets?

I hope Shopify's success will continue to signal to investors and future entrepreneurs that Canada is a great place to build a tech company and make big bets.

Some investors also placed bets that corporate tax cuts would keep the current economic expansion going, but skepticism remains as to whether the GOP - led Congress will be able to pass a bill before year - end.

While the resort operators» investors obviously have a lot more to think about than what might happen in Macau later on this year, those who've placed bets alongside Las Vegas Sands or Melco Resorts & Entertainment may want to think about taking some money off the table.

Concentration comes in another form: When too few companies make up a large share of the index, investors could be placing large bets on single companies.

That means investors can place bet on whether it will rise or fall in coming months.

Investors quickly placed bets reflecting a higher chance the U.S. central bank will raise rates in December, with futures contracts implying a 43 percent possibility compared to 34 percent prior to the statement.

Meanwhile, the usual corporate media touts and shills are trying to convince the last of the retail investor muppets to place their bets in Wall Street's rigged casino.

Many of the fixed income investors I talk to feel that they are caught between a rock and a hard place — trying to hedge their bets amid volatility, but punished on the yield side and incurring increasing interest rate risk when they play it safe.

Indeed, many investors are reluctant to place longer term bets and cling to larger cash allocations, anticipating continued volatility.

Top investors, such as Paulson & Co.'s John Paulson and Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn, placed big bets on gold in 2009.

Not since 2000 have investors in the style indexes placed such a big bet on the future performance of just one sector.

An investor then speculates on which way the price will go and places a bet on the direction the assets price will move.

Whichever the case, investors can place a bet on the direction they think it will go.

The interesting, central finding of the theory paper is that when a «fortune» (available resources) fall below a certain critical level (determined by the cost per unit time of surviving, and the stochastic return investments available to the investor), the optimal policy becomes what economists call a «risk - seeking» one, where the investor should place relatively large bets on relatively high payoff, low probability of payoff gambles.

Given the growing mainstream concern over a carbon bubble, and calls to «keep it in the ground» when it comes to fossil fuels, this rejection by councillors — not to mention the huge swell of public sentiment that influenced it — should give investors serious pause for thought regarding where they want to place their bets when it comes to energy.

Investors that placed their bets at the beginning of 2017 could even make 4000 % profits.

There are still three wireless charging standards fighting for primacy, Apple has only touched it toes into the water with conducive charging on the Apple Watch, and many deep - pocked technology investors already starting to shift from placing their bets in the current wireless charging standard players to new possibilities like uBeam, which can send power to phones using ultrasonic sound — meaning your device could move about a room while charging, not having to sit idle on a pad.

Lots of investors decided to place a bet for the most known cryptocurrency in order to profit from the split.

Investing.com — The price of ethereum's ether clinched a record high for the second day in a row amid both rising volumes and demand as investors continued to place bullish bets on ether ahead of an expected surge in demand.

But the contract was liquidated soon afterwards when another investor placed a giant bet the other way that dwarfed it.

These contracts essentially function in a way that allows investors to place bets reflecting where they predict the price of Bitcoin will be at different times in the future, the BBC reports.

Not many investors are interested in placing a bet on a place like Columbus — however, home prices are undervalued by almost 20 % here.