Sentences with phrase «of bearish bets»

While the real - estate market was collapsing, the husband of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand made a large number of bearish bets against housing stocks, an analysis of congressional disclosure reports shows.

The contract opened strong last Monday but has since fallen below WTI prices as speculators placed a series of bearish bets.

With the stock up a massive 30 % since January, a measure of bearish bets sat close to its highest level of the year.

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Of course, your timing might have to be impeccable in order to cash in on your bearish bet.

Now that the dust has settled, those bearish speculators haven't gone anywhere, with Netflix short interest — a measure of bets that share prices will drop — still perched near highs.

CNBC contributor Mike Khouw breaks down a bearish bet on the VIX in the options market ahead of tomorrow's presidential election.

These are bearish bets that the price of an asset will drop in value.

Then, as JPMorgan tried to deal with the controversy and the losses, it appears to have dumped nearly $ 142 billion of bullish bets, leaving them just $ 10 billion in excess of the bearish ones.

It had $ 65 billion more bullish than bearish credit bets at the end of 2011.

These numbers split out two categories of credit bet: a bullish type that makes money if the market thinks companies and countries are getting more creditworthy, and a bearish type that makes money when the opposite happens.

So attired, the short seller proceeded to launch into his bearish theses for the collection of Canadian companies he's betting against.

Ihor Dusaniwsky, head of research at financial analytics firm S3 Partners, says investors have been increasing their bearish bets on stocks throughout the past two years in anticipation of a stock market sell - off.

The current COT situation should therefore be viewed as a short - term warning of euro weakness, but not a reason to place a substantial bearish bet.

Buyers of put options are making bearish bets against the underlying company.

When it became clear earlier bullish bets on oil post-OPEC were about to cost speculators a lot of money, traders and their machines took over and engineered bearish positions to mitigate losses.

And when the market still didn't cooperate, they started apprehending or «disappearing» people suspected of placing bearish bets.

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-...]

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Hedge fund manager James Chanos, who has been a long - time skeptic on the Chinese growth story, is sticking with his gloomy view of ratings agencies Moody's Corp (MCO.N) and Standard and Poor's, saying their rosy outlook on China's debt only bolsters his bearish bet.

While other financial companies were scrambling to clean up their balance sheets in the wake of the Great Recession, Fairfax raked in a profit of more than $ 2 billion on Watsa's bearish bet.

«To play a bearish bet in bonds, it's not bad,» Larry Berman, chief investment officer at ETF Capital Management, said of CIB.

Since December the CFTC's reports show that futures traders were betting against the price of BTC, indicating bearish sentiment and spot prices followed the contract predictions.

After all, the bearish bets are just a tiny fraction of the $ 365 billion CMBS market.