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The panic we witnessed last summer on the foreign exchange market largely came from the perceived risks associated with a seeming one-way bet on dollar-yen exchange before most Asians de-coupled from the yen.
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In the last financial crisis, AIG-FP was not hedged on its big bet to sell off-exchange CDS protection.
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Shares in Betfair, whose betting exchange allows gamblers to bet against each other, rose as much as 14%.
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They still had bands at the Corn Exchange, but he bet you couldn't spit on the floor any more.
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LSE's business in British shares, but the exchange would be dotty to bet on this.
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So, you may be thinking, you could hedge your U.S. bond portfolio by making a side bet against the dollar in the foreign exchange market.
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In a note to investors, Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore bet Apple will announce support for both Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes corporate communications systems for the iPhone.
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There are also those in the wings with another product to flog: a foreign-exchange derivative which, because it is a bet settled for cash, also reduces Herstatt risk.
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For those who want to invest here, but don't want to bet on an individual company there is the iShares Dow Jones US Utilities exchange traded fund.
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To invest in the operator and bet on the house, SatoshiDice shares are traded on the MPEx bitcoin stock exchange under ticker symbol S.DICE (see August 19th, 2012 Prospectus).
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Paulson also maintained his bet on gold, through a 31.5 million share stake in the SPDR Gold Trust exchange-traded fund.
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George Soros, for example, famously bet against the pound and forced the British government to abandon its membership of Europe's exchange-rate mechanism in September 1992.
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