Sentences with phrase «risky bet»

Everything is pointing up and investors are willing to make riskier bets on fast - growing companies.

Those with poor credit scores face a hard time proving they've gotten better at managing their finances, since they're too risky a bet for most lenders.

For him, doing every last bit of research and homework that he can often eliminates the need for him to make risky bets.

Considering the huge step we have made over the last decade correlations with the past are about as risky betting with them as against them.

This absolutely includes choosing a car with relevant safety features that make it a less risky bet, but there are other factors to be aware of, too.

Reading between the lines, it encourages a shift away from coal — an increasingly risky bet as governments crack down on greenhouse gas emissions.

The height of arrogance is in making big risky bets believing you can predict the future when most know variables are already public.

By using monetary policy alone to fight inflation, and being too aggressive, bankers needed to make risky bets to get the same level of return that a normal growth economy would produce.

Unlike other financial corporations Cincinnati Financial did not engage in very risky bets in the past, and has kept its balance sheet very strong.

Capitalism is supposed to ensure that corporate shareholders bear the costs as well as receive the benefits of risky bets.

Very risky bet at the time, but it paid off handsomely.

In our continuous work to identify high quality, «moaty» businesses, we recently researched the long - time steady company WD - 40 (WDFC) and in so doing discovered a seeming case study of a «safe» company whose valuation has been bid up so high by yield chasing investors that the stock now represents a very risky bet on a perpetual continuation of today's abnormal valuations.

«As a technologist and someone who likes to take risky bets with new technology, I thought it was really intriguing,» Saddington tells CNBC Make It.

Global emerging market stocks, however, remained under pressure, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index again trading in the red Friday after falling 1.98 % Thursday as investors backed away from risky bets amid the collapse in Brazil.

Why should banks ever be permitted to use peoples» bank deposits — insured by the federal government — to place risky bets on the banks» own behalf?

It's also one that pays off over the very long run: licensing revenues are not maximized (because of potential antitrust issues), and some portion of the profits is funneled into the lower margin chip business with the promise that said investment will result in licenses in the future, a somewhat risky bet that itself won't fully pay off because some of that profit will itself be reinvested...

And as investors move away from such risky bets (see Bank of America dumping «risky» coal mining investments just last week), they will be looking to invest in those forward thinking businesses that are positioning themselves as part of the solution.

Is your pension fund or insurance company a leader or laggard when it comes to avoiding risky bets on the future impacts of climate change?

After the banks made wildly risky bets with our money, we bailed them out.

A bid for attorney general is a much riskier bet, especially considering state election law is fuzzy about whether a congressional candidate can run for the post this late in the midterm election cycle.

Volunteers willing to place riskier bets tended to sport larger amygdalas — a region associated with processing fear.

It's a huge and existentially risky bet — and maybe one out of a million people even know it's being made.»

But the EEOC guidance actually suggests a path to compliance with anti-discrimination rules that will still allow employers to exclude the truly risky bets in the applicant pool.

Canada's pension funds have been making increasingly risky bets for several years now.

In a new report released yesterday by the institute's Empire Center, we find that pension contributions will skyrocket over the next several years, because the state's pension funds made risky bets in the stock market and lost — leaving taxpayers, not public employees, to pay the bill.

It has all the hallmarks of globally distorted economic incentives forcing yield - starved investors to take risky bets they don't understand.

Though American Express, MasterCard and Visa once viewed small businesses as risky bets, they're now aggressively courting you with low introductory rates and perks like vendor discounts, reward programs and consulting services.

But I believe that VC - funded players should be transparent about their backing, spinning their products to the crowd as less risky bets to fund.

Dear IJ, It is an equity oriented balanced fund, can be a very risky bet, for a time - frame of 2 years.

Plus500 lets investors make risky bets on stocks and currencies using borrowed money.

It was a pioneer in Brazil for making risky bets of the sort favored by U.S. investment banks, and in 1994, according to Sonho Grande, it cleared $ 1 billion in profit.

Saunders» targets have ranged from dermatology - focused companies that match up well with its Botox brand to riskier bets on firms making drugs for diseases with a dearth of available therapies, like the liver condition Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

Tim Seymour held the lead for a long time, but risky bets on Valeant and Mattel backfired in the final two weeks.

But assuming that the rest of the world will continue to turn a blind eye to American profligacy is a risky bet, and it will get riskier if Congress keeps skirting the tough choices for the next 10 years.

He took the riskier bet — and the company has now raised more than $ 1 million in funding.

Something that might have seemed like a risky bet in the past because of a lack of historical data can end up being an incredible success story, and change the way that people view an entire industry.

Or should we now focus on execution of our core business, reduce our risky bets and maximize shareholder return.

Meanwhile the most credit - worthy small businesses are not borrowing, fearing a worsening economic situation, and the quality of small businesses that want loans has deteriorated, making them riskier bets, experts say.

The study's author found that the men who saw male models were more likely to choose the risky bet compared to the men who were shown images of female models and average individuals.

Keeping these risky bets in mind, Cramer turned to his game plan of stocks and events to watch in the week ahead:

But with no clear outcome for a bill that is unpopular with both conservatives and liberal lawmakers alike, hospital stocks are one of the riskiest bets on the market right now.

Previously, Google reported its ad revenue, the bulk of its business, in combination with sales from its riskier bets, such as connected thermostat business Nest as well as the aforementioned moonshots.

She spends a lot of her time thinking about financial stability; she knows lower returns could lead to riskier bets — and riskier bets increase the odds of financial crises.

Reinforcing that belief was the fact that China was slowing, U.S. corporate profits have been shrinking, and bond markets suggested that U.S. corporate borrowers were taking on riskier bets than many people had originally thought.

To explain why this big gap in valuations isn't a sign of over-valuation, the CAPE's critics cite lots of individual issues in these nations that make them riskier bets than the U.S., such as looming Brexit in the U.K. and Germany's uncertainty regarding future leadership.

The bank, regulators said, failed to prevent a group of traders in London from amassing the risky bet.