Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enclosed is $35--keep the extra and buy yourself a hat. As for those rich folks, let me tell you this: are they willing to arrange teas? I bet...
...flaw in Deng's retirement plan was that he bet on the wrong man. His handpicked successor, Hu Yaobang, 72, a keen reformer, was dismissed as party leader in January for failing to control student demonstrators who were demanding freedom and democracy...
...although this latest housing proposal has added a little spice to the mayoral race, few think Tierney will be able to gain enough momentum to unseat Flynn. The perception that Flynn is a sure bet to win Tuesday has hurt Tierney in his efforts to get voter attention during the past month...
Program trading came into its own in 1982, with the advent of stock-index futures. These enable investors to make a bet on which way the entire market is going. Index futures, used with program trades in the stocks on the index, open up a variety of opportunities. One of the most popular takes advantage of momentary differences between the price of a futures contract and of the stocks themselves. When this spread is sufficiently wide, a trader can lock in a profit at no risk by, say, buying the futures and selling the underlying stocks. This practice, called index...
...thousands of U.S. investors, big and small, who beat the odds and emerged as winners in the midst of the stock market's bloodletting. Some of those players, like Trump, had sensed the big drop coming and took their profits before that climactic moment. Others, like Cafazza, in effect bet on the market plunge by making investments that rise in value when stock prices crumble -- either through options trading or a practice known as short selling. Yet another group of investors swooped aggressively into bargain-basement stock buying on Tuesday, after the Dow took its 508-point plunge...