Hints and tips:
...As a macro fund, Caxton wagers on moves in bonds, currencies and other assets, which can be influenced by economic and political events....
...Unfortunately, there was a whole lot more wrong than that in store for Deutsche Bank, which took ownership of the casino after the developer Ian Bruce Eichner defaulted on a loan in 2008....
...The fund’s bets on airlines were hit in the coronavirus crisis, while its wagers on UK stocks did not do well in the wake of Brexit....
...The money was needed, Mr Flatt explains, to pay for a big wager on US malls — a sector that many investors have left for dead....
...It looks like the kind of boat Phileas Fogg would have used to win his round-the-world-in-80 days wager. Yet Hetairos is a modern classic, designed by Bruce King and launched in 1993....
...)” … On a chilly Monday night in December, Soros took the hour-long drive from Manhattan to the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut....
...Airports have become wagers with death. Authority figures are playing musical chairs. What better month, or week, for the cinema to cry, “Summer? What summer?...
...In telephone betting, the equivalent is a hotline to your own personal bookie and the implicit guarantee that vast wagers will be taken without demur....
...“I call it the Silent Tsunami, every day more than 100,000 people die quietly and acceptingly,” Bruce Klein of the Immortality Institute tells Appleyard....
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