Hints and tips:
...Short sellers, typically hedge funds, that want to wager that securities will fall in value must borrow stocks and bonds to make the bets before returning them to their owners....
...Perhaps the noisiest AI questioner is Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist who co-founded an AI start-up and sold it to Uber in 2016....
...The filing sets up an epic legal struggle between a wealthy and powerful industry and an energised SEC, which, under chair Gary Gensler, has hit financial services with the biggest regulatory blitz since...
...For the city, and the many investors making the same wager, the consequences may be enormous....
...Martin Small will replace Gary Shedlin, the outgoing finance chief. The reshuffle also added to the portfolio of Mark Wiedman, seen as one of a handful of possible successors to founder Larry Fink....
...They agreed to have a wager, but Lineker had no idea what to bet. Jordan, lighting a cigar, said to make it “whatever makes you feel uncomfortable”....
...Futures contracts that wager on the direction of Wall Street’s S&P 500 fell 0.9 per cent and those on the technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 dropped 1.2 per cent, indicating another down day following the sixth...
...But the current chair Gary Gensler has turned the tables, saying last summer that his SEC will not enforce those rules and may instead rewrite them....
...These are instruments that let you wager on the direction of a stock without actually holding the stock....
...Banks that took the other side of the wagers tried to hedge their risks by buying the underlying equities, but ran into trouble when Hwang’s fortunes waned and he failed to meet margin calls....
...Americans are set to wager $7.6bn on Sunday’s Super Bowl, the American Gaming Association predicts....
...The body’s chair Gary Gensler said he expects the SEC to start identifying non-compliant issuers from next year....
...Neighbouring New Jersey is currently the US leader in sports gambling wagers among states which have legalised the practice since 2018....
...A gaming trailblazer, Adelson was the first westerner to bring the glitz and glamour of Sin City to the former Portuguese colony of Macau, a successful wager that placed him directly at the centre of what...
...Seconds after taking my call, Gary Lineker groans. Is everything all right? He suffered a back spasm following a workout, he tells me. “It comes when I overtrain....
...When Gary Ross, one of the biggest names in energy trading, saw that oil tankers had been attacked off the UAE city-state of Fujairah earlier this month, he knew crude prices just had to rise....
...on at current levels of about $1.10 to $1.15 per pound, the remaining 70,000 contracts were put on when the arabica price was higher, providing little incentive for funds to close their positions, said Gary...
...In fact, earlier this year Buffett won a wager that a cheap index fund, which does nothing but track the US stock market would, over 10 years, thrash an elite crew of hedge funds picked by Protégé Partners...
...Occasionally there are even wrong-way bets, a wager that a security will move in a direction that it doesn’t....
...The retired footballer Gary Neville is praised for his one-man revival of television punditry on Sky Sports....
...Shareholders, led by Parvus, the activist investor that owns more than 14 per cent of the stock, have done the right thing in dragging the UK bookie away from the poker table before it could wager its inheritance...
...British bettors lost about £12.6bn last year as the rise of online gambling encouraged punters to wager more money than ever before....
...“Many of us are getting pessimistic about the idea that clearing out amyloid is going to work,” says Dr Gary Small, director of the Longevity Center at the University of California in Los Angeles....
...gary.silverman@ft.com...
...But that concept – in which punters wager directly against each other – proved less disruptive than hoped and the company moved into conventional bookmaking....
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