If, however, your goal with purchasing gold is to take a gamble or make a bet on the direction of the current price, go for it.
It also fosters new ways of using the telephone: to send short messages (a billion a month in Europe), to pay for a Coke, to make a bet, to receive instant recommendations on where to park or to eat.
But this also is a treacherous time to make a big bet on the retail industry, which is battling headwinds from a weak economy, competition from online shopping and overbuilding during the boom years.
It's a synergistic, cost-effective way to make BET a true national news operation, but BET executives worry that many news stories will be covered by white correspondents.
In their determination not to make a wrong bet, nobody is taking on risk.
And if they make a big bet and it goes sour, they have their 2% of assets under management to fall back on.
The financial industry has done so well for itself, in short, because it has been given the licence to make a leveraged bet on property.
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You can own bullion or futures, but if you really want to shoot for big returns you need to make a speculative bet on mining companies.
Certain of those securities had been recommended by John Paulson who wanted to make a negative bet that the whole system was flawed and would collapse as it ultimately did.
Newmont Mining ( NYSE:NEM) the all-around go-to company for investors looking to make a basic bet on the gold mining industry is the one that just keeps going down.
If you want to make a big bold bet on new tech, you need to have the ability to convince others that it is a good idea.
So I wait, plan, marshal my resources and when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all.
Let's analyze, then, Vanguard's actively managed Windsor funds since their low fees make them a good bet for investors who want some action.
In sum, there are four things that make 529s a good bet: a tax exemption on gains, a possible deduction for contributions, flexibility and no punishment at financial aid time.
But, with Facebook, the odds would be a lot better if the price to make this particular bet were a lot lower.
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If you want to succeed in international investing you can't just buy a couple foreign stocks every now and then or make an occasional bet on a hot country fund or ETF.
If you think there is even a small chance Arena will make it through this time, a bet on it might have made sense.
The LG E960 Mako -- which we've taken to calling the Nexus G but has also been referred to as the Nexus 4 -- seems to be a sure bet to make an appearance after its many leaks, and a 32GB Nexus 7 variant rates as highly probable.
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Most operate within a web of risk limits, documentation requirements and other rules that make it easy to turn a bad bet into a criminal matter.
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If the results of human trials are just as good (not a sure bet), a pill to make fat people thin--one of the holy grails for drug companies--will have been discovered.
Taken together, all these prodigies of cinema technology may, or may not, make Disney's bet a winning one.
Where some see a soured bet, others see a chance to make a killing.
And it has been done with Denizen (not to be confused with the jeans line, though I bet they would make a helluva pairing).
There are a MILLION tricks for one with funds to safely make a bundle each day, and I bet you know most of em.
Nuclear plants in particular have low running costs but enormous capital costs: investors must make a 20- or 30-year bet that power prices will remain high enough to pay off the cost of building the plant.
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Typically, when investors take a short position, or make bearish bets on a stock, they borrow stock to magnify their bet.
Well, I think starting a company, and gambling everything I have on the bet that I can make this work (and change the world in the process) is definitely a challenge.
Merck's recent deal with DeCode Genetics is a bet that there are genes that make people fat.
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