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Kerviel did not deny he took risky bets and lied to cover them up but claimed his superiors knew what he was doing.

The approach is akin to that of a venture capitalist spreading his bets among new ideas in fund-management.

Investors who like to hedge their bets, meanwhile, can get a better sense of how much protection they might want.

This was a chance to trade bets on, in effect, the death of a non-existent horse, as Estonia has no publicly traded government debt.

The losses stemmed from unauthorized derivatives-trading bets, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Japan, in a volatile neighbourhood, is trying to hedge its bets. Yet it is not fully secure in its relationship with either east or west.

The money is so cheap it could lead some banks again to make bets and loans that later turn out to be inappropriate.

These rules mean that big banks are no longer going to be able to make risky bets with your deposits.

It could almost be the heady days of the mid-70s, when capitalism seemed to struggle for breath and all political bets appeared to be off.

They're just the latest examples on a long list of high-profile bets that don't look as if they're working so far.

If I were a politician who might need to underwrite the next bailout if Goldman's bets go bad, I'd be a bit worried.

Zou: What except bets the ball you also to meet, Guoanju sends you to this country to come, is lets you bet the ball?

The bank, it seems, should be placing bigger bets with the public subsidy it gets in the form of its too-important-to-fail guarantee.

The company is one of a few cash-rich foreign investors hedging bets on western China.

Investors, Schiller promises, will be interested in making bets on this sort of thing.

The world's second-largest bank is now trying to extricate itself from those bad bets.

They do not want political entanglements, or concentrated bets of the sort in which Mr Soros used to specialise.

Suffice to say that all bets are off re your love life - it's going to be exciting and unpredictable from here on in!

It was reported that his latest loss came after he made high-risk bets following a good start.

Alternatively, write out a schedule and make bets with a few friends that you'll stick to it.

Proprietary trading, in which Goldman makes bets with its own capital, accounts for about 10% of its profits.

But ane-card-with music, animation and a unique message--- is certainly one of the better bets.

We don't know which of them is going to be elected chairman, so we'd better hedge our bets and he nice to both of them.

Other investors have made similar bets this year. But Bridgewater stands out for the scale of its wager.

You've got to have enough capital, actual money, to cover the bets that you're placing so that you're not putting the whole system at risk.

Banks will no longer be allowed to rely on deposit insurance and being "too big to fail" as a basis for taking big bets, he says.

Six men and a woman were arrested in a flat in Yuen Long for handling bets and money laundering, local media said.

During an era when many people legitimately had nutritional deficiencies, placing your bets on a multi might have been reasonable.

With the core search business maturing, Google increasingly seems to increasingly feel the need to make some "big bets. "

Oddsmakers around town are taking bets on the length of her prison sentence.

They are hedging their bets - they are seeing which side is going to win - purely driven from a sense of desperation.

The firm has "cut off" the bits that made aggressive bets with its own capital, says Mr Gorman.

Their leveraged bets went sour, and the derivatives they thought insured them against any shock turned out to be worse than worthless.

Lining up bets on a revaluation of the renminbi used to be a weekly ritual for many.

So, runs the rationale, they should be entitled to a share of all the bounty on the occasion when one of their bets pays off.

HSBC will likely hang on to its influential equity stakes, although it is hedging its bets by expanding its own mainland branch network.

But Mr. Ballmer, speaking in Milan Wednesday, appeared to be hedging his bets.

Bearish bets on the dollar are hardly uncommon these days, but Monday's market response sure looks like an overreaction.

Some critics have accused the firms of inflating the share prices of large web companies, but their bets on Skype, at least, have paid off.

In Asia at least, private-equity bets resemble early-stage growth investment rather than the leveraged buy-outs of the boom.

Pass Line bets cannot be removed once the point is established.

Those all seem like safe bets, but won't happen right away. The economy is already in a recession that could last the rest of the year.

Financial services are different from other industries, if only because so much of the business is writing bets.

The pick-and-shovel (in this case, drill-bit-and-drill-ship) companies are also good bets if oil prices are headed up over the long term.

On some bets, waiting might have gotten him better terms or more attractive entry prices.

It has hundreds of billions of euros with which to place macroeconomic bets.

More to the point, these stock bets aren't really a play on China's broader economic health but rather on specific company woes.

The company was testing one of the boldest bets in its 12-year history: Google TV.

Banks that call their opponents' bets in the legal poker game will not always be as lucky as the three that prevailed this week.

Brazil now imposes a tax of 6% on foreign purchases of its bonds, as well as a smaller tax on bets against the dollar on the futures market.

When a woman takes out her compact and puckers her lips and opens her mouth while she puts on candy apple red lipstick, all bets are off.

Its weak oversight allowed a relatively junior employee to place bets worth more than the bank's entire capital.

Banks will be banned from what is called proprietary trading - effectively taking bets on financial markets using its own money.

Since the real currency of such contracts is cash, rather than barrels of crude, there is no limit to the number of bets that can be made.

Such a quick buildup in bets against the dollar may mean the market is vulnerable to bouts of profit taking.

Instead, Goldstein bets (and I completely agree) on a substantial role for rarer variants with substantially larger effect sizes.

One example of this willingness to take big bets is his regular purchase of a small amount of gold coins every month.

In a boom, overconfident investors take on bets that they later find themselves unable to discharge.

When someone gets married, all bets are off. They become the married ane we become the enemy.

Investigation found that gambling is done by the web site side Makers out to the site members Handicap bets, thereby benefiting.

ProPublica said Magnetar's strategy was often to purchase the riskiest parts of such deals and then make side bets against the deals.

Now, rumors and speculation are swirling more than usual, as the industry's cash hoard puts it in a position to make bold bets.

Since April, investors placing bets that the U. S. stock market will go down have been noticeably absent.

As the wave growing demand, prompted the company bets in the relevant Machine Tools business.

If not, all bets are off and those who forecast oil prices will again be shown to be no better than their local weatherman .

Qu of a Qu bets with the pig say: I jump into grass you lose sight of me, the pig says: Should I look so that see?

Interpol said the raided shops had handled bets totaling more than $150 million.

It indicates, he said, that drug companies' big bets on anti-amyloid treatments could pay off.

During the conference last week, the three leaders seemed to be hedging their bets rather than announcing anything groundbreaking.

In every country of Europe people made bets on whether the imaginary Mr. Forgg would arrive in London in time to win his bet.

In the second quarter, Goldman Sachs Group reported blowout trading revenue, which includes bets with its own money.

Over the next few weeks, Bear Stearns's competitors disclosed losses from bad mortgage-related bets.

Data issued by the Tokyo Financial Exchange shows market participants have been aggressively building bets against the yen.

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It might be worth placing a few money-losing bets if they made you look electable.

Certain bets on the craps table have some of the best odds in a casino, unless you're going to do real work like counting cards.

As it has done throughout the post-WWII period, Washington is hedging its political bets.

Your first task is to write a program that identifies the maximum possible gain out of a sequence of bets.

He is placing the bets now and Republicans must be very careful about calling his bluff.

That will drive down pay at Wall Street firms, since traders won't be able to make as many big, leveraged bets.

"The global 'casino', nearly empty a year ago, is crowded again, and many new bets are on the table, " it said.

Polcari said traders could dominate through the end of the year as fund managers refrained from making big bets before year end.

Bond insurers, who used to cover roughly half of the market, have retrenched or gone bust after making bad mortgage bets.

Traders jump back into the market , and portfolio managers make their bets for the rest of the year .

"I won a couple bets doing that with guys on my team, " Billups added with a laugh over the jeers of teammate Rasheed Wallace.

I require a piece of software written to help me track my bets when playing online roulette.

The next decade could determine which of these bets pays off.

But so many investors complained that Mr. Tepper was straying from his roots in debt investing that he canceled his bets.

And with no fixed supply of raw material, unlike stocks or bonds, bets could be almost limitless.

With the Kelly Criterion, you are always betting percentages of your bankroll so as your bankroll grows, so do your bets.

With the Kelly Criterion, you are always betting percentages of your bankroll so as your bankroll grows, so do your bets.

For an analysis of the "hot money" trade and bets on Yuan appreciation, please see "Consensus Nonsense" ; Is the Yuan Undervalued?

In currency markets, analysts say more traders are laying big bets on whether the yuan will be allowed to appreciate further in 2011.

Sudden interest in "civilian" nuclear power around the oil-rich Gulf shows that Iran's neighbours are hedging their bets.

Few would have put money on such an outcome; indeed, many had already placed huge bets against it.

J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. is raising its bets on high-technology credit cards aimed at cutting down on fraud.

When someone gets married, all bets are off. We become the enemy.

This means bets against the dollar were at their lowest since January and down from record levels earlier this month.

The survey shows their bets on rising shares, minus their bets on falling shares, have surged alarmingly since the summer.

She made risky bets that paid off only some of the time, choices that her children had to live with.

With oil prices high, China's policymakers are hedging their bets by investing in one of the world's most controversial fuels: coal diesel.

We take risks, make big bets, and move with urgency. We are in it for the long haul.

Bets are easier to make with confidence when you know that financial innovation has made them easier to lay off again.

For those duped out of the $7 million, the penny stocks touted as "good bets" by the scammers obviously weren't.

Instead, the dollar has benefited from the global flight from risky assets as well as the unwinding of bets made with borrowed cash.

And there are no bets that offer such high returns these days. Even oncology, once one of the areas for high returns, is seeing problems.

Similarly, many Tory bets, such as the elected police chiefs, could have done with a pilot project.

MF Global had a penchant for placing concentrated bets using unhealthy leverage levels supported by inadequate capital.

That assertion has been proved right in the most embarrassing way, after allegedly unauthorised bets cost the bank a whopping $2. 3 billion.

There is nothing inherently wrong with the model, except when government steps in to bail out banks when these bets fail.

Meanwhile, bookies have slashed the odds on a second Icelandic volcano erupting this year following a flood of bets on active volcano Katla.

If either of those companies hedged their bets by making phones running other operating systems--perhaps Windows--Android could suffer.

Some people wonder if SocGen would have blown the whistle at all had the bets been profitable.

As readers of this newspaper surely know, many of the world's biggest banks have lost lots of money, making complex bets in the markets.

Investors around the world listen closely to Soros' comments as his hedge fund makes big bets on currencies, interest rates and stocks.

In his speech Mr Obama hedged his bets, sticking with the public option but signalling a willingness to compromise.

Best bets would include solid companies that have been beaten down by the broader market free fall.

Losses forced investors to liquidate bets on Asian currencies, which are often positioned in a way to rely on dollar weakness.

There's sushi and shellfish here too but the better bets are the regional specialities, especially the cheese fondue.

There is a point to all this, apart from settling bar bets about which song has the most prominent banjo part ever.

With the young currency bloc facing the first major test of its fiscal reliability, financial markets are hedging their bets.

Adding fuel to the fire was Germany's unilateral move earlier this week to ban certain types of bearish bets on stocks and bonds.

Mr Kerviel cleverly concealed the bets he was making with a series of offsetting transactions with fictional counterparties.

Asian central banks haven't made big bets on gold, at least publicly.

The group thinks strategically: it spots markets that are about to take off and places huge bets on them.

Starting from the next horse racing season, payouts for exotic bets will be set in accordance with the new rate.

That will work so long as bank bosses do not offset higher capital costs by making larger bets in investment banking.

Starting from the next horse racing season , betting duty on exotic bets will be imposed at the new rate .

Worries over an imminent correction have mounted after the largest weekly increase for a decade in bets that prices would rise.

While the company has operations throughout the Middle East, some of its biggest bets in the region have not yet paid off.

During the credit bubble, even small hedge funds made speculative bets by selling big banks insurance protection on mortgage-backed bonds.

Shipping isn't the only sector that placed too-aggressive bets on growth and has been caught out by overcapacity.

As head of the risk committee, he had been reviewing the Wells Fargo and other negative stock bets. He wasn't happy.

The odds are nearly 99% that I'd win one of these two bets.

Naked CDSs are the instrument of choice for those who take large bets against European governments, most recently in Greece.

The scale of such bets was spread across the various derivatives markets that are based on government bonds.

It is not just hedge funds that have been trimming their bets against the dollar.

Speculation mounted during the day that France and Italy were preparing to announce a suspension of negative bets against stocks.

Mr. Charoen will now have to show some of the mettle that has characterized his previous business bets.

Something I hate that's happened in the League recently are the instantaneous, all bets are settled, early season conclusions.

Car-parts suppliers also are placing big bets on the city, formerly known as Madras.

Which suggests that the industry should stop paying for the pricey lions and place their bets on a flock of fresh lambs.

Ever since, carmakers have been placing their low-emission bets more on plug-in hybrids, clean diesels or pure electric vehicles.

In the same year he reluctantly began to take bets on elections.

He wanted specific pessimistic plays that would offset specific optimistic bets, rather than the broader hedges Mr. Marano had employed.

Or, you could weight your bets roughly in line with global market values or shares of world GDP.

The emirate borrowed capital and labour to make speculative bets on real estate, of which The World is only one outlandish example.

And all bets are off should China decide against making any changes to its currency policy.

So far, he has hedged his bets on the "right" war (in contrast to the "wrong" one George Bush launched in Iraq).

However, all bets are off if Black Friday weekend sales are a bust and retailers are forced to rethink and step up their promotions.

China sheds a few basis points of economic growth and investors take $305bn of commodities bets off the table.

Speculators are simply driving up the price of oil to hedge their bets on the falling dollar.

Markets have long been stacking up bets against the ability of countries on the eurozone periphery to honour their obligations.

In a shrewd hedging of bets, Microsoft is also working on a distributed OS, a research endeavor dubbed Project Millennium.

The biggest single hedge-fund category is "equity long-short" , which mixes bets on falling, as well as rising, share prices.

Yet with increasing competition as the financial sector recovers, the pressure to make bets will surely surge.

It also is harder to place bets against the euro, now that the Federal Reserve is pumping the financial system with money.

Some fund mangers have stayed away from QE2 bets, in favor of a more global approach.

Disclosure: These predictions look like safe bets because the potential outcomes of these topics are being traded in online betting markets.

So, he told prosecutors, he tried to prove himself by taking unhedged bets on futures markets and hiding his trades.

But the options market is already taking bets that Apple will top $500 in the next couple of years.

Relatively new mutual funds make it easier for small investors to spread bets again, in moderation.

But traders have been wary of placing bets that the market's recent downturn is here to stay.

Kim's parents, with us for the blessed event , and I placed last-minute bets.

Miller had made ill-fated bets on ailing mortgage company Freddie Mac where he was the biggest shareholder.

NDFs take care of that by letting market participants take bets on where they think the yuan will be in, say, one, six or 12 months.

Yes. You know, I have to hedge my bets for later move.

It gave financial institutions the confidence to raise their speculative bets, using borrowed cash to do it.

E. g. When England is involved in a soccer match, the majority of bets placed with UK bookmakers will support England .

In game A, a player tosses a single loaded coin and bets on each throw. The probability of winning is less than half.

We must hope that the global economy is in a sound enough shape for businesses to make bets of their own.

Intel, it should be remembered, has never placed all its bets on the U. S.

These proprietary trading desks, usually focused on similar opportunities to hedges, could use higher leverage to make bets.

Since late August, investors have been adding to their bets on emerging markets, especially Asian developing nations.

The PDP this month likewise hedged its bets, saying that it welcomed all candidates in primaries expected in the autumn.

In the options market, the predominant activity favored more bearish bets than have been seen over the past month.

The answer is a matter of avid curiosity, particularly among hedge funds that take big bets on international asset prices.

Recessions occur when optimism turns to pessimism, and businesses are reluctant to place bets on a prosperous future.

Bets can be closed out at any time by making a matching but contrary trade at the current spread.

It also shows how researching your family tree can help you place bets on the sex of your next kid.

The bets that Samsung Electronics placed on DRAM chips, liquid-crystal display screens and mobile telephones paid off handsomely.

The final sign was a burst of yen strength (which would indicate an unwinding of speculative bets).

It means more bets can be made with a given dollop of capital.

That's partly because some of the firms, particularly Merrill, made bad bets on real estate.

Investors, however, trade them as pure speculative bets, something the administration wants to restrict.

But Cary Adams, a local resident, notes the developers are hedging their bets: two giant car parks are also scheduled for construction.

However if the number 5 comes out the player will lose all his bets played on the Equalities.

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The firm has taken more than 500 bets in recent months on which volcano will erupt next.

Perhaps the best indicator of the programme's prospects is that the president himself is hedging his bets.

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Croxson and Reade studied how the price of different bets varied as goals were scored during English league games.

Our current economic system and dare I say the world economic system is run like a bookie runs the football bets.

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Some of those who expect to face tough contests in 2012 may decide to hedge their bets on subsequent votes to defend or dismantle the law.

now they look like a smile, indicating bearish bets have caught up with bullish ones.

He confidently bets the remainder of his pot, eighty-two dollars.

Despite a rough start to the year, Macau has not hedged its bets and has gone all in on casinos.

Data on the popularity of such bets are not widely available. But anecdotal evidence suggests plenty of people are bearish.

Without insight into the potential pace of growth, investors have found little reason to make any big bets in the market.

Consider picking a really good active fund manager to make your bets for you.

They expect hedge fund managers to be more aggressive and to take larger bets in their search for much higher returns.

Those bets look good now, but obviously the proof will be in the pudding of returns over the life of the fund.

Posner's definition of speculation as bets placed on future prices of assets or commodities is good enough for my purpose.

Boozing into the night might inhibit coherent speech, but a Japanese company bets it will make workers communicate better.

Bets that rely on a China slowdown rippling through the corporate world are another avenue.

And Microsoft is hedging its bets, readying all versions of Windows to run on netbooks.

A Democratic congressman, Joe Donnelly, called these "simple bets" with no real "product" behind them.

The big unknown is whether drug companies' big bets on the medicines of tomorrow will exceed or fall short of expectations.

And the cross-margining guarantee that both exchanges are employing with banks will allow traders to make bigger bets with far less money.

India's stock-market regulator on Wednesday also restricted short selling -- or bets that stocks will fall -- by foreign funds.

Investors across the world look to credit rating agencies to judge where to place their bets in the market.

Now the region's exchanges have started to make bets backed with hard cash, buying stakes in possible long-term partners in the region.

Those bets could sour, however, if the American economy slows, as many suspect it is already doing (see article).

The international investors who have put the eurozone under siege are placing two mutually supportive bets.

However, strength in the Japanese currency may subside as speculators have cut bets that it will appreciate.

Traders often avoid making big bets just before earnings releases since they provide a clear picture of how a company is performing.

Aside from this "trading mentality" , macroeconomic factors are also colluding to encourage Asian investors to make punchier bets.

CIC has made other bets beyond resources that seem leveraged to a global rebound, particularly in the real-estate sector.

Read the fine print : Low sodium and very low sodium are good bets, but check numbers on products marked reduced sodium or less sodium.

If you can swallow that idea, and Kurzweil and a lot of other very smart people can, then all bets are off.

But following his return, Apple placed even bigger bets on contract manufacturing and component suppliers in Asia.

After the first lottery bets, betting the first to break the traditional lottery game modes.

On the euro, CitiFX strategists said they had closed long euro bets against the dollar, sterling and Swiss franc.

That failure came in large part because hedge funds cannot make as many bets with borrowed money, analysts said.

Practical measures could involve higher margin or collateral measures for those taking bullish bets.

Mister Kerviel's job was to place bets that indexes would both rise and fall.

As the sun bets down, he swings about.

'A lot of people lose their money, of course, ' I said. 'And people with big bets on a different horse can make much more money.

Whether he's proven right or wrong on these bets, obviously, remains to be seen.

Yes, it discourages big banks and financial institutions from making risky bets with taxpayer-insured money.

Some experts say the funds also made lower-rated subprime bets that were designed to hedge risk by moving in the opposite direction.

But as the economy deteriorates, A. I. G. 's insurance bets certainly become more perilous.

That would prevent even the most troubled banks from gambling for redemption by taking big bets on bonds.

In reality, all bets are off: The crisis ball rolls and everyone holds their breath so it doesn't fall on their square.

Any 'Place Win' bets placed before a 'point' has been established will be marked with an "OFF" marker.

Speculators often lose huge sums on commodity bets, rather denting their reputation for moving markets.

Amaranth's losing bets were mainly on well-organised futures exchanges, so its collapse was relatively orderly.

Pace. 'It's more a matter of re-allocating [or shuffling existing bets from one sector to another] to stay fairly defensive.

Few hedge funds have so far plotted ways to make big bets against the Chinese economy.

Mainstream organizations will go for what they deem are safe bets rather than venture into unknown territories.

Most of the dwindling takings are used to pay off winning bets.

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The more prices have fallen, the more of those bets have gone sour, adding to financial firms' woes.

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It created a widely admired venture-capital arm, but never made big enough bets to create breakthroughs, says Ms Kanter.

IF THERE were any sure bets in medicine, you might think that "blood transfusions save lives" would be one of them.

My feeling is leaders don't want to be left with the responsibility for any possible failures so they are hedging their bets.

Adobe rejected Jobs's arguments, but hedged its bets by developing programming tools that support HTML5 as well as Flash.

Lumber-company stocks in Malaysia have benefited from investor bets that wood prices will rise as Japan rebuilds.