Sentences with phrase «many big bets»

He tweeted that he will form 10100, an investment fund that will be home to his «passions, investments, ideas, and big bets.»

CNBC's Kate Kelly reports on hedge - fund titan Stanley Druckenmiller's optimism in the markets, including his tech shopping spree and big bet on the emerging markets last quarter.

I think it gives us lattitude to go out and make big bets.»

«I've made some big bets this year on gold, and I'm obviously not winning and I'm getting very annoyed.

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.

Then you begin to realize, «Well, $ 300 million probably makes a lot of sense if someone wants to dominate that particular market and they're making a big bet.»

Lots of perks and upgrades, and a big bet on renters

We think about how can we make some big bets on companies in the categories we're interested in.

Although some people will use leverage to make a single big bet on a stock, a more conservative approach is to put together a diversified portfolio.

For IBM, Watson Jr. was making big bets, shifting the company from mechanical tabulating devices to a new thing called a computer.

Schulich's big bets aren't limited to stocks.

Finally, one from the Fortune archives: Brian O'Keefe's 2012 magazine story on ExxonMobil's big bet on shale gas.

We have really, really big global investment funds making big bets on Calgary, and it would be a shame if Canadian financial institutions miss that boat because they're too nervous about the future of the community.

«Amazon's been signaling for about one or two years that they're going to make big bets, because they can, because they've got the cash flow to do it, so that makes this less of a surprise,» said Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital.

Arkadium was scrambling to fill in for the Crimean employees who didn't make the move and trying to recover from a couple of big bets on new games that had vastly underperformed.

A year after announcing a big bet on Amazon, Silicon Valley investor Chamath Palihapitiya returned to the Sohn Investment Conference Monday with what he called a more controversial pick: Tesla.

Heineken, meanwhile, can focus more resources on the two fast - growing Mexican beers it has already placed a big bet on (Tecate and Dos Equis).

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg last year made a big bet on Oculus Rift, purchasing the Irvine, Cali.

Ottawa's big bet on government - designated superclusters was designed to encourage academia, not - for - profit organizations and companies of all sizes to work together on strategies to boost high - growth sectors.

Under Armour, which generated nearly $ 4 billion in sales last year, has reported consistent double - digit sales growth as it expands into new product categories, places a bigger bet on the women's market, and sees stronger brand interest with key athlete endorsement deals including NBA star Stephen Curry and golfer Jordan Spieth.

Startups to watch: It's a big bet in a city that wagers more than any other, but startups like Lucine Biotechnology, which focuses on women's healthcare, and password management app Launch Key improve the odds that Las Vegas will be a successful entrepreneurial hub.

Executives said they hoped to improve the chain's performance by placing bigger bets on lunch and upcoming soccer tournaments.

This billionaire family is placing their biggest bet ever on a massive new entertainment complex, Durham Live

It's a big bet by the United States's top automaker.

IBM, Intel, J.P. Morgan and several other big banks are among those making a big bet on blockchain, the distributed transaction processing engine behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

The fledgling company's next big bet was producing an electric rice cooker that was widely panned as being capable of little more than ruining a bowl of rice and leaving you with a wooden tub to clean.

Though Amazon is far and away making the biggest bet on AI talent, there were some surprises too.

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The main culprit is that the TSA made a big bet on its PreCheck program and enrollment is moving slowly.

A lot of them find that at least right now, we can take really big bets as a private company.

Customers of B2B software or services, for example, are often making big bets that can impact their careers.

But in 2001 to 2003, the airwaves were pretty empty from travel advertising and that was a big bet that we made, and it paid off.

They periodically make big bets in new lines of business.

A good employee is almost always worth a big bet; they are like the pocket aces of the poker world.

«When we had a couple hundred customers, it wasn't a big enough base to tell us where they wanted to go, so we made big bets,» Levie says.

Fujitsu, Pioneer and Panasonic quickly joined Philips in the market, with Panasonic soon becoming the most prominent plasma manufacturer, acquiring Pioneer's technology in 2009 as a big bet on plasma's future.

The new product is «one of the biggest bets across Kraft Heinz,» says Greg Guidotti, head of marketing for Oscar Mayer at Kraft Heinz, who is leading the launch.

When the company launched Discover, the special content hub within its app in January and its biggest bet on making money, it included content channels from a few partner publishers, as well as one for its own material, such as short series, and music videos.

Chanos, known for his big bet against Enron before it collapsed in 2001, said Thursday his firm has been concerned about the «rent seekers» in the U.S. health - care system who he alleges are ripping off the system.

«We're going to make a big bet in health and wellness,» Schultz says.

And that's the big bet right now, that markets are «all - in» as well.»

It's not where our big bets are as a company for pursuing digital transformation — the basic areas where we're focused, either on driving top - line revenue or reducing bottom - line cost — we don't see Microsoft enabling that.»»

She re-iterates the fact that the working professionals - turned entrepreneurs prefer taking calculated risks rather than resort to jumping in directly to bigger bets.

Hence, they are comparatively cautious than their North Indian counterparts who possess the old money cushion that drives bigger bets and larger risks,» states Ashok.

Though relatively new to the scene, OMERS has been making some big bets on Canada's limping tech sector.

(Reuters)-- U.S. casinos must take steps to combat illegal sports gambling, the Treasury Department has told an industry group in a letter that came just weeks before the Super Bowl, one of the biggest betting events of the year.

The company is also making a big bet on hydrogen - powered cars, even though the infrastructure for these vehicles does not really exist in the US yet.

Because the financial markets have been so volatile these last few years and may continue to give investors a bumpy ride, Kaplan says it pays for investors to stay liquid and to diversify their holdings through vehicles such as mutual funds and ETFs (exchange - traded funds) rather than make big bets on individual securities.

His big bet on IBM never paid off (by one estimate he lost $ 800 million).

That's a big bet considering most packaged goods brands spend most of their budgets on TV, and online video is still an emerging advertising medium.

Expect bigger bets on juices, energy drinks, and plant - based / dairy offerings as Coke aims to remake itself to align with the healthier options consumers are gulping.