Thai tough guys place bets as their bodyguards hover behind holding their bosses' mobile phones.
When regulators raise those requirements, oil speculation becomes less attractive to traders and they place bets elsewhere.
Uncertainty means that some companies are sitting on cash piles, waiting to determine where to place bets.
This could provide more incentives for investors to place bets on which fledgling company will become the next Amgen.
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The macro, or asset-allocation, approach is to place bets on broad categories of assets, such as German bonds or emerging-market stocks.
Investors and executives feel that they cannot place bets because they do not know whether the Eurozone will survive or fall apart.
JPMorgan Chase is shifting 45 prop traders into its asset-management arm, where they can continue to place bets, but only for clients.
This week, online market-predictions firm Intrade, working with Forbes.com, opened a market for people to place bets on the next head of Yahoo!
Dublin-based Intrade allows users to place bets on future events by buying and selling contracts in a similar way to the financial markets.
For speculators looking to place bets on the direction of interest rates (such as hedge funds), interest rate swaps are an ideal instrument.
The idea here is simple: Investors looking to place bets abroad should stick to countries that don't tie up business folk with red tape.
That's vintage Masayoshi Son: Get in early, place bets others shrink from and get out of the way to let the managers do the managing.
As a result, per head shops popped up where any barroom bookie can pay to login to their own domain where their customers can place bets.
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The channel is part of an Attheraces business which will allow racing fans to place bets through their TV sets, and will encompass internet, mobile and radio media.
Even the new bill makes exemptions for those who use the internet to place bets on horse races or buy tickets in lotteries (which raise large amounts for state coffers).
Juniper also has a JUNOS innovation fund that invests alongside venture capitalists to place bets on early stage or growth stage companies that might offer innovations Juniper can later deploy in its networking gear.
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This year, the latter group is stepping up to the plate and beginning to place bets buoyed by the strength of current business results, strong balance sheets and their pent-up need to find growth.
Seeing few other domestic opportunities on which to place bets with the cash they had accumulated during flush years, military contractors poured into the cyberwarfare field, building operations centers, purchasing niche players, and competing aggressively for contracts.
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Apparel companies need to do the city analysis to understand where to place their bets.
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If there was a major correction, like October 1987, I'd be willing to place some bets.
This is what happens when we place our bets on American workers and American businesses.
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As governments and companies place their bets, perhaps the biggest unknown is which technologies will win.
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Wealthy punters can place big bets on events involving ill-paid sportsmen in faraway places.
Because you have to go somewhere to place your bets, and the bookie has to be somewhere.
We will continue to place new bets in sustainability technologies along with our regular focus on information technologies.
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Business at home is so lacklustre, however, that they may have little choice but to place bigger bets abroad.
Place your bets: Does the online gambling business in America start crumbling today?
Trade will continue on Wall Street, as optimists and pessimists place their bets on both sides of the market.
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We place our bets on entrepreneurs and on workers and on our families.
Now, the people who believe a reinvented GM is going to be hauling in huge profits are invited to place their bets.
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