Sentences with phrase «of dollars betting»

But Freddie Mac has invested billions of dollars betting that U.S. homeowners won't be able to refinance their mortgages at today's lower rates, according to an investigation by NPR and ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom.

It's convenient that Cohn's new position does not require Senate confirmation since exactly what he knew about Goldman selling bogus investments to its clients while the firm made billions of dollars betting the instruments would fail might be raised in Senate questioning of Cohn's fitness to serve.

The hearing produced no significant results, and as Professor Snyder says, «I began to get suspicious about the sources of the millions of dollars bet by the Miami Syndicate.

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Gold, meanwhile, hit a six - week low of $ 1,307.40 an ounce, as the dollar strength and bets on higher interest rates kept it on the slide having already gone dropped through its 100 - day moving average.

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.

On Friday, the dollar index was up 4 % from its lows of the year hit on February 16, as traders found it increasingly expensive to bet against the dollar's decline.

In 2015, Ackman, the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square, announced his multi-billion dollar bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); he proceeded to lose nearly his entire investment, or $ 7.7 million every day for about two years, as Valeant stock sank 95 %.

The dollar's rapid rise, following Donald Trump's November 8 election victory, shows little sign of abating, with investors betting on a positive outlook for the U.S. economy in anticipation of additional fiscal stimulus.

Pinterest is betting that the future of search — and search ad dollars — will not involve typing into a search bar.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

It's no surprise that the NCAA's March Madness basketball tournament pulls in millions of dollars in bets across the U.S. and is something of a time drain among workers across the country.

The Play: After a private meeting with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary John Paulson on the impending financial crisis on September 16, 2008, Bachus — then the Ranking Member on the House Financial Services Committee — bet against the stock market, netting himself tens of thousands of dollars.

After seeing millions of dollars invested in fantasy eSports and eSports betting sites over the past few months, the first big eSports company acquisition has finally happened.

She didn't directly mention the string of executive departures, the layoffs, or the billions of dollars in losses that have plagued Alphabet's diverse «Other Bet» companies, whose projects are as varied as self - driving cars and high - speed internet service.

If the dollar carries on the way it's gone the last couple of weeks, these bets will be cut even further.

With Quiznos betting a huge chunk of its marketing dollars on digital video during at a crucial time for the company, we wanted to know the reasoning behind the decision.

If you hedge half of your foreign holdings back into Canadian dollars, you can reduce your risk without making a specific bet on which way a currency will go.

As a long - time advocate of passive investing in low - fee index funds (in fact, he's on his way to win a million - dollar bet on an index fund), Buffett also has some strong opinions on the value of high - fee investment structures like hedge funds and mutual funds.

China has gazillions of dollars in the bank, and just as in poker, betting against the richest man at the -LSB-...]

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.

Or rather, you're betting that the price of Bitcoin will go up compared to the U.S. dollar.

Despite Adobe's decades - long grip on creative industries, venture capitalists are betting they can help startups outmaneuver the behemoth and grab slices of the multibillion - dollar market.

WisdomTree's yuan ETF is heating up as investors start making bets China's currency is heading higher against the dollar for all kinds of reasons, the latest a couple of reports suggesting the Chinese government is ready to let its currency start rising again.

The ETH rate growth led to the fact that the Ethereum network commission grew to several dollars and amounted to more than 3 % of the minimum bet.

We believe synthetic gold has been co-opted by risk managers and speculators as a convenient, high - capacity instrument to offset bullish bets on financial assets, the US dollar, and ultimately on the success of radical Fed policies.

Nearly a decade ago, Warren Buffett made a million - dollar bet: that by investing in a completely unmanaged, broad - market low - fee index fund, he could beat the gains earned by a high - powered hedge fund with a team of managers at the helm.

While it isn't always a significant number of dollars, as a percentage of their net worth versus the percentage of the VC fund's value, I'd bet it is a greater investment.

They are, after all, «hypothetical» and if you are being held accountable for a budget to market your company's solutions — would you bet millions of dollars on «hypothetical»?

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-...]

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

The USO fell after the initiation of Quantitative Easing III by Ben Bernanke as the flood of US Dollars overwhelmed speculators who piled into the oil ETF, betting it would rise at it had after previous economic stimulus efforts.

The data buoyed U.S. stocks and helped lift the dollar to a 5-1/2 - year high against a basket of currencies as traders brought forward bets on the timing of the first rate hike.

The fact that he started off the presentation by stating that he is willing to bet that users of the Disrupt trading system will earn more than ten thousand dollars by the time the presentation video ends is nothing more than an outright lie.

Breyer was the managing partner at Accel Partners, which invested $ 12.7 million in Facebook in 2005 when the company was priced around $ 100 million; that bet proved to be among the most lucrative in the history of the venture business, returning many billions of dollars to Accel's investors after the company went public in 2012.

I say, if this staggering amount of impoverished people in Africa were to receive 12 dollars for a year of water you can bet that there souls will listen.

Only instead of betting a couple dollars, or the Mortgage, they are laying their eternal life on the line.

Just watch what happens if she and her boyfriend break up — I'll bet dollars to donuts she's an atheist again inside of a week.

He tells the crowd around him how he won a bet in Nebraska: a bribed official in the Big Eight Conference «misofficiated» an important football game, and Jack, who was privy to the official's chicanery, won hundreds of dollars on the game.

i bet you dollars to heavenly doughnuts, you will make the world the kind of world that the real, human man some called jesus would be proud to live in.

So, when we get a little cool weather you can bet your bottom dollar I'm whipping up a pot of comforting soup in my favorite ever garage sale find — my green dutch oven pot.

Casella's family wine company, Casella Family Brands, owners of the Yellow Tail label, are betting on the weaker Australian dollar and a move into premium categories to boost profits.

---------------------------------------- Mo1 — Oh and i bet my bottom dollar that Stubborn stubborn man plays the exact same team, tactics as Dortmund and previous weeks, playing ozil out of position, No subs till 70plus mins etc etc etc

I doubt that the fan's will be booing the players during the Swansea game, but if they fail to win this one, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will be booing at the end of this game!

He is supremely confident and has a great future ahead of him, and you can bet your bottom dollar that Arsenal will get him at a bargain price from Alkmaar.

Since opening, bettors have hammered Purdue, who has consistently received the majority of spread bets and spread dollars even though they're a double - digit underdog.

However, just about a half hour ago, the line quickly jumped to 9.5, with close to 80 % of bets and 75 % of dollars coming in on Purdue.

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Since those announcements, the Sooners have continued to receive the majority of spread bets and spread dollars, forcing oddsmakers to adjust their number yet again — finally landing on Oklahoma -18 at the time of publication.

According to our public betting trends, 75 % of spread tickets and 81 % of total dollars wagered have taken the road favorite.

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