Sentences with phrase «of large bets»

The bookies have voted firmly for Roger Hiorns, whom William Hill have rated at 10/11 — a spokesman suggested that there's been a series of large bets on him to win, possibly from art - world insiders (who said no one wanted to gamble on art these days?).

-- I personally find the combination of large bets and distressed situations quite dangerous.

The full - back is now 5/6 favourite to join the Red Devils after a number of large bets.

This split indicates there have likely been a handful of large bets placed on the Falcons +7.

I doubt that punter's would knowingly throw their money down the drain, so obviously someone somewhere must know something, even though this wouldn't be the first time that these kind of large bets have been proven fruitless, in the past, but it still gives us some hope that Wenger may surprise us!

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

Interestingly, 58 % of dollars wagered have taken the Dukes, indicating that some of the larger bets on this game have taken the dog.

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Code - Foo and other training schemes outside of the academy aren't just a good bet for smaller companies looking to recruit, but also something Bahat sees as having larger social benefits.

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.

Betting large is a good thing, but only if you've taken the steps to figure out what kind of hand you're holding.

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.

Fred Upton, a Republican congressman from Michigan and chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, put his finger on the larger issue facing governments worldwide at a recent hearing: «Was Solyndra just one bad bet by an administration rushing to claim credit for the first loan guarantee, or is it the tip of the iceberg?»

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.

With the volatility index hitting its lowest level of the year, one trader placed a large bet that stocks will continue to rally.

The technology improves the contrast and colors of images, and Samsung, LG and other large TV companies are betting big on it.

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

Large companies often flood the H - 1B application pool, while smaller businesses with less financial muscle make fewer bets on the people who are most critical to the future of their business.

But as Peter Eavis at the New York Times pointed out yesterday, the bank isn't disclosing a number everyone would like to know: the «overall size of the derivatives bets that have led to large losses and much reputational damage for the bank.»

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.

This is a large part of what makes precious metals a safe bet for hedging a portfolio.

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.

LONDON (Reuters)- Bitcoin climbed to a new all - time high of $ 6,450 on Wednesday, boosted by bets the cryptocurrency could enter the financial mainstream after the world's largest derivatives exchange operator said on Tuesday it would launch bitcoin futures.

As sensors become smaller and easier to use, Dexcom and its competitors are betting that the systems will be adopted by the much larger group of people with Type 2 diabetes, which is typically controlled with medications, diet and exercise.

There is one number that JPMorgan Chase apparently doesn't want outsiders to know: the overall size of the derivatives bets that have led to large losses and much reputational damage for the bank.

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.

Far from the perception that many don't, most investors and even those who end up buying Aggressive Growth Funds have considered Large Cap Mutual Funds as a safe bet before deciding they're more of the risk loving folks.

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.

By CountingPips.com — Get our weekly COT Reports by Email 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 reduced their bets for the Euro from a record high level this week while also pulling back -LSB-...]

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-...]

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.

As part of the so - called Volcker Rule — a regulation that has come to epitomize a tamer Wall Street — banks are also prevented from making large bets with their own money.

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....

If they live their faith, I bet by and large, they are contributing members of society who place emphasis on good work ethic, honesty, education, family and kindness.

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.

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

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

The best - value bets can often be found by going against these teams because the oddsmakers adjust the line to reflect the expected weight of public money; so that the underdog is often quested at better odds or receives a larger point spread than is warranted.

Even though the majority of bettors are taking Navy, these evenly split money percentages indicate there have been several large bets placed on Tulsa.

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.

1 — Data Source: SportsInsights.com's public betting trends statistics come directly from the line boards of the industry's largest online sportsbooks.