In the gaudy world of gambling, the conventional wisdom is: Never bet against Steve Wynn.
That gives you 14 months for your bet against Ben Bernanke to be vindicated.
One major brokerage firm had advised clients to bet against gold a few days earlier.
Regulators claim he helped structure the deal, which was designed so he could bet against it.
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For investors, the question is: Does it still work to bet against the popular mood?
Before you bet against either America or Burt Reynolds, however, you may want to think again.
The callousness this time could be worse than the bet against shaky mortgage portfolios.
But anyone in the know would have been unlikely to bet against The Tsunami.
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Until then, perhaps a decade from now, you bet against Apple at your own peril.
Who would bet against a central bank that can conjure money from thin air?
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The next time Citi gets in trouble, who wants to bet against help from Washington?
Still, with Kaepernick running this offense, it is hard to bet against the 49ers.
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The safe haven over the last two months has actually been a bet against U.S. Treasury bonds.
For those that want to bet against homebuilders, there is no inverse homebuilding sector ETF available.
Second, it has never paid to bet against a state with as many inventive people as California.
Shares in Betfair, whose betting exchange allows gamblers to bet against each other, rose as much as 14%.
The same is true for investors who bet against financials in 2008, as the real estate bubble burst.
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As long as the marginal investor is willing to bet against the index, prices will not be distorted.
It reassures me that my bet against the crowd is a wise one.
There was a comparable slump in cash bonds, which for technical reasons are hard for speculators to bet against.
So Soros doped out what the herd believed, bet against it and then stayed ahead of the protean creature.
But I wouldn't bet against Oldenburg's straight Cabernet Franc joining the fray, either.
After the year she and England have had, who would bet against it?
There are basically two choices, join the bulls in their stampede, or take the contrarian route and bet against Baidu.
In the short term, private-equity firms, on the prowl for buying opportunities, may be willing to bet against the pack.
Remember, a bet on gold is a bet against Ben Bernanke and the geniuses at the Fed and the Treasury.
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IR In trading commodity futures, the old adages buy the rumour, sell the fact and bet against major media predictions often prove themselves.
Just as we warned you on our pages in early November, you bet against Fred Rosen at your own peril.
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The reports reveal that Freddie had invested billions of dollars in securities that bet against homeowner's ability to refinance their loans.
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