What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM in the early 1950s on mainframe computers or the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft in the mid-1990s on Windows if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?
One venerable MMF, the Reserve Primary Fund, was in 2008 in the unenviable position of having bet unwisely on the solvency of Lehman Brothers.
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In the playoffs, you normally want to bet on the more experienced quarterback, who in this case is Flacco.
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Goldman was also in the wrong position on trades that bet on the rise or fall of certain indexes.
Decades of America pricing itself out of a health care market accelerated with the all-in bet on more insurance being the panacea.
In the pharma sector, several of the billionaires bet on Genzyme, which surged in mid-February after accepting a long-simmering takeover bid from Sanofi.
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Like the previous ETF, the ProShares Ultra Euro is leveraged, but in the opposite direction, a bet on the Euro going up.
Not so long ago, there were few in the city who would have bet on the Bank of England pumping more money into the economy before the end of this year.
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The result was a sharp rebuke after months of rising optimism about the euro zone's prospects among international investors, when many even bought into securities in the region's troubled southern rim on the bet that the worst was over.
When he placed the biggest financial bet in Irish history - on the bank he then loved, Anglo Irish - he was already Ireland's richest man.
Additionally, TD-LTE is not supported by most of the mobile devices available in the market currently, which makes the bet on Clearwire even more risky.
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The restrictions also cover the use of credit derivatives to bet on a fall in the value of the debt of a eurozone government.
Icahn increased his bets on Motorola Solutions trying to capitalize on a weakened giant in the mobile industry, and Simons bet big on Hewlett-Packard and eBay.
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But as fears over the eurozone debt crisis recede and investors bet on a recovery in the US, sentiment towards gold has suffered.
In the book, the moral is: Never bet on an eggplant.
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What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) in the early 1950s on mainframe computers, the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) in the mid-1990s on Windows, if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?
The biggest investment in it on the horizon is in China not because China is taking a great bet on nuclear, but because even a modest level of interest in such a huge economy is big by the standards of almost everyone else.
For example, he realizes technology is hot, but the Australian market lacks any pure plays in a segment he longs to bet on: the Internet.
The stock's SOIR of 0.39 ranks below readings taken during the past year and has remained at an annual low for the past eight trading sessions as speculative investors continue to bet on a rebound in the equity.
Nokia made the decision to bet the company on Windows Phone in part to avoid the frenzied scrum that has emerged in the Android market, and I think they chose wisely.
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As my colleague John Dobosz has repeated ad nauseum, the recent improvement in housing markets may be a reason to bet on the homebuilders.
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Investing in an ETF is one of the safest ways to bet on economic growth in a foreign economy.
The difference is that in a format war the more people who bet on a format actually leads to that format winning.
That would be at least double the amount bet on the previous tournament, staged in France in 1998.
Investors went into the day riding a bet on a pause in rate hikes, having bid up the Dow 4.4% and the Nasdaq 2% since July 17.
Together you analyzed the best players in the league and bet on which teams would make it to finals.
But Boeing is anything but a pure play on airliners, with half its business in defense work, so the best way to bet on the 787 may be among its suppliers.
Mr Hague's strategy is, in essence, a bet that Britain must rely mostly on herself in the next round of globalisation, buttressed by efforts to show voters at home that engagement with the world profits the country.
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