Sentences with phrase «large bets in»

He beat favourite Roger Hiorns, who was thought to be a foregone conclusion after bookies took large bets in anticipation of him winning.

Amazon especially is making large bets in the physical world, the most notable being its $ 13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods, which has only 400 stores.

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KSA is ninth in flows among all foreign country ETFs this year, according to XTF.com, with stock ETFs covering stock markets in Japan, China, Brazil and Malaysia all receiving larger bets.

In addition to those smaller bets, Dopfner has made it clear that he is also willing to make large ones: Earlier this year, he tried hard to acquire the venerable Financial Times, only to be outflanked at the last minute by Nikkei.

I'm not sure that as a community we're embracing those sorts of large bets here in the United States.

In a large Monday trade, one trader used a strategy called a 1x2 call spread, which is a leveraged way to make a bullish bet on Nike's stock — in this case, for only 27 cents per sharIn a large Monday trade, one trader used a strategy called a 1x2 call spread, which is a leveraged way to make a bullish bet on Nike's stock — in this case, for only 27 cents per sharin this case, for only 27 cents per share.

Stars Group said the «pivotal» deal will make it a bigger player in the fast - growing business of online sports betting and become the world's largest online gaming company.

But today, his fund, which once grew as large as $ 36 billion under management in 2011, has dwindled to $ 10 billion, following double - digit losses on wrong - footed bets on drug companies in 2016.

Australia «s two largest non-casino gambling firms are struggling to cope with mounting competition from online betting agencies which have taken off since the deregulation of gambling licenses in 2012, and both reported profit falls in August.

In Song's opinion, there are two kinds of entrepreneurs: people who build a startup because they're passionate about a specific business — a desire to create the world's largest cold - pressed juice empire, say, or a sudden insight that betting on video games is the future of fantasy sports — and people who are entrepreneurs because that's just the only thing they can imagine doing.

Now Ottawa - based Dymon Storage, making its first move on the Toronto market, is placing its own massive bet, developing what it says will be the largest storage facility in the world, in the west Toronto district of Etobicoke, across the street from an Ikea.

I spend a lot of time talking clients «off the ledge» when they'd like to move all of their money into one outperforming asset class, place a large bet on hedging strategies for a pending correction they see coming or suddenly want to get out of the market altogether and «drop anchor» for fear of pending scary dives in the markets.

When a brand makes an investment in creating high - quality content, you can bet they'll ensure it reaches the largest number of people.

Microsoft is banking on a larger audience beyond just the hard - core, but that's the wrong bet at this point since it's really only gamers who buy consoles early in their release.

Tesla's Elon Musk has won the bet to create world's largest lithium - ion battery power project in South Australia.

But I do have a large active investment portfolio where I take some concentrated bets in specific positions.

Taking the broad stock market as a whole, and considering all stocks — not simply the largest of the large caps — investors are now making the broadest and most leveraged bet on overvalued equities in U.S. history.

The Antipodes team cautioned that timing is a large part of getting a short call right and therefore approached making predictions about what to bet against in 2017 with some trepidation.

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.

There have probably been large Wall Street institutions that made bets believing that Britain would remain in the European Union.

In 2012, JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank on Wall Street, lost $ 6.2 billion betting on credit default swaps tied to corporate debt — and then publicly lied about the losses.

The company even built the world's largest lithium - ion battery farm (100 MW) in South Australia to win a bet, in fewer than 100 days.

In today's «derivative» stage of finance capitalism, large Wall Street banks make money off their customers and counterparties by betting which way the economy will go, much like betting on a horse race — except that «fixing» the financial race is not illegal, or at least is not prosecuted.

Not only is it a large retail market expected to grow to $ 1.1 trillion by 2021, but it is also a large consumer internet market where companies like Facebook and Google are betting big (see: How Google is priming its Next Billion ambition in India).

In spread betting, it's imperative that you broker offer you lighting fast trade execution or else you will have to lose a large amount of money.

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.

In our Hedge Fund Wisdom premium newsletter, we outlined the investment thesis on AIG as Berkowitz has pressed his bet there and it is by far his largest position at over 20 % of his portfolio.

Given the multiple potential conflicts of interests (Elon Musk being the largest shareholder in each company for starters), the completion of this deal is no sure bet.

Bets on oil futures reached 1.47 million contracts for the week ending on November 15, the largest trading volume in nearly a decade.

The combined business will own a betting shop network spanning Victoria, NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory and an online wagering business across the TAB, UBet and Luxbet brands that would be the largest in the country as measured by turnover — though the UBet brand will be phased out and replaced by the TAB brand across retail outlets.

When trading in a simulated environment, traders tend to bet larger amounts than they are able to in real life.

In fact, a low - cost index of large global companies, the MSCI All Country World Index, almost exactly matched hedge - fund returns during the same nine - year period of our bet (and international stocks actually lost money during that period.)

I would bet — big money — that the fraction of FUBARLiberals who exhibit these characteristics is in fact larger than within the Roman Catholic Church....

fred The Bible said that at a time when the world's human population was only in the millions, and disease generally prevented about 30 % of all children from reaching adulthood, so having large families was a way of hedging your bet.

I'd bet a large % of people believe in ghosts or souls too.

I bet you don't even realize how easy it is to make and serve this warm dip in large batches.

If you don't have either, I bet these would be wonderful cooked in a large pot of simmering chicken or beef stock.

Method: Make the dressing first by combining all ingredients in a large mixing bowl and whisk until smooth Set aside 4 Tablespoons for the marinade and set the rest aside Combine all marinade ingredients and spoon onto tofu and let sit for at least 30 minutes or best bet overnight

In 2008, when many franchises began to downsize, Muscle Maker Grill continued to grow, prompting its preferred vendor to place larger bets on this winning horse.

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I didn't try Shop Rite, Trader Joes, or the larger Whole Foods in a neighboring town (but I bet the latter would have it,) so I ended up purchasing the wheat berries on Amazon.

In one of this weekend's most heavily bet games, I love the value on the Fighting Illini as a large contrarian home «dog.

As you can see, our NFL Best Bets have been profitable in each of these seasons and our betting against the public philosophy has been a large part of this success.

We have spoken in the past about the key characteristics for a winning betting system, and one of the most important is a large sample size.

There's also a large segment of the betting population that believes that home - field advantage is enhanced in conference rivalries since the excitement of playing a familiar rival leads to louder, more raucous crowds.

This game opened at Packers -4, and despite the large majority of the tickets being on Green Bay (see chart below), big bets from professional players have moved this line down to juiced - up -3 in most places.

Betting all underdogs in low - scoring games would result in a 55 % winning percentage while slightly larger dogs (of at least 3.5 points) have covered at a 58.5 % clip.

Although the Dodgers were the largest favorite in nearly two years, a more interesting piece of information emerged — Kershaw was actually the most profitable pitcher to bet against in the National League.

In this example, there's been an influx of public money on Utah, but large bets from well - respected clients have taken Colorado.