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...As a former head of Scotch whisky group William Grant, Entain’s new interim chief Stella David should be familiar with the works of Walter Scott....
...The cryptocurrency has risen more than 141 per cent this year as markets wager that the Fed’s battle to trim inflation is nearing its end....
...If Herman Melville, Byron and Patrick O’Brian took inspiration from the Wager’s story, so did William Golding, whose Lord of the Flies Grann cites in his epigraph....
...Instead, investors bet on the most exciting-looking stable owners and promoters, certain that every wager would pay off handsomely....
...Investors still appear sceptical, however, with traders in fed funds futures markets continuing to wager that the central bank will not need to push its policy rate above 5 per cent....
...Xiang had bet that the price of nickel would fall, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine wrecked his wager by sending prices of raw materials soaring, leaving him exposed to losses of potentially billions of...
...I’ll wager that Keith Richards can look after himself....
...Now, four prime ministers later, Rishi Sunak is taking the biggest wager of his political career: trying to clear up the mess....
...A study led by King’s College London political scientist Alan Wager has been much tweeted during the Tory leadership contest....
...“It looks like we have a default, at least for the purposes of CDS,” said Marcelo Assalin, head of emerging markets debt at William Blair....
...Monetary policy New York Fed president John Williams is set to speak about regional and national economies, as well as monetary policy, at an event at the State University of New York at Buffalo....
...Opening track “Taking Me Back” gets under way with a wager. “I’ll bet you do,” White cries in the wild tone of a gambler pushing all the chips on to a single colour....
...And the announcement earlier this week that its rival Creative Artists Agency had scooped talent house ICM means that Endeavor, which merged with the William Morris Agency in 2009, is no longer the only...
...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...
...Doodles raised $54mn in September as part of a funding round that included 776, the VC firm of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (perhaps best known as Serena Williams’ husband), and FTX....
...What US gamblers call a “parlay” and UK punters an “accumulator” requires sequential wagers to come good to earn a big pay-off. Would-be industry consolidators are making the same bet....
...question a few years ago, we might’ve said it was a telecoms group benefiting from the stability of its core businesses to wager a bunch of aggressive side bets, such as its investment in the Chinese ecommerce...
...I [invested in] about 50 or 60 start-ups in India but now I am more likely to go to Pakistan or Bangladesh,” says William Bao Bean, a Shanghai-based general partner at global venture capital fund SOSV....
...The market has grown rapidly — New Jersey, the first state to legalise sports betting following the Supreme Court decision, reported that $668m was placed on wagers during August, more than double the amount...
...Consensus-beating revenues in the third quarter were up 30 per cent on a constant currency basis, trumping rivals William Hill and GVC....
...Those offering online casino games and poker have enjoyed a jump in wagers and increased numbers of customers....
...Despite customers finding niche sports such as table tennis to place wagers on, revenue from bets on William Hill’s website dropped by almost a quarter from March 23 until the end of April, compared with...
...Dealmaking bonanza Among the most notable deals have been the Las Vegas casino giant Caesars’ £2.9bn takeover of the UK bookmaker William Hill, which is due to complete this month....
...It’s a sizeable wager by Apollo, one of the biggest winners of the coronavirus crisis, that Vegas will make a comeback as an epicentre for tourism....
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