The dollar strengthened, so the bet failed and speculative flows went home.
With the struggles in the DVD rental industry recently, it is not hard to imagine why so many bet against this relative newcomer in the industry.
So what bet is the market taking on Vestas?
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Even so the bet must be that the Greeks reluctantly, sullenly, will go along with new austerity but I have sensed a despair that last year just wasn't there and no-one knows where that will lead.
So my bet is that the main outcome of the current kerfuffle will be to hand a stick to Labour (and to a lesser extent the Lib Dems) to beat the Conservatives with, and make it much harder for them to legislate in a way Labour doesn't like.
So I bet that, you know, here at the end of the year in the state of the holiday season, we're going to be unlikely to understand sort of broadly as a nation the way in which this particular assassination and the possible, you know, move of politics in Pakistan behind this assassination are likely to have reverberations for our own foreign policy.
Regulators claim he helped structure the deal, which was designed so he could bet against it.
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TCF's debts, so its best bet would be to let the company go bust.
So you can bet on an appreciation of the krona against the euro in a single transaction.
The windows for these rooms are blurred or removed, so you can bet no one is peering in.
This diversity has helped southern California withstand the recession more successfully than San Francisco, which bet so heavily on the Internet.
So should traders bet against these guys?
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Travelers checks remain a useful option, but the places you'll exchange the checks overseas offer rates 5% or more worse than what you'll receive using credit cards, so your best bet is to stick with plastic, says Lucy Lazarony of Bankrate.com, an Internet personal finance Web site.
What made the expensive Apple of a decade ago so much the better bet than Dell?
In return for his agreement to do so, the Shin Bet agreed not to prosecute him for illegally possessing classified materials.
Verizon said that the open policy will still be in force when LTE rolls out -- the big push into EV-DO was a winning bet, so it's going to try and be aggressive with 4G as well.
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Keep in mind that this money was promised before the iPhone App Store was even launched -- so given how that bet paid off, it's not surprising that KPCB's decided to double down on the iPad, which looks like it'll have even higher app prices.
Even so, I would not bet on the year-to-date rally maintaining its 8.38% year-to-date pace throughout 2013.
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This season, of the four unbeaten teams, No. 1 Duke is the best bet to remain so.
So just how good a bet will solar securities be when they hit the market sometime next year?
So it seems a safe bet that the same thing will happen when more crises come along in March.
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So I wouldn't bet too much on Obama's current low 41% approval rating.
Less than 30% of ITU's business is big-business lending, so this stock is a bet primarily on consumers and small businesses.
But even so, he would have bet five to one his future lay somewhere between that wall on Powell Street and the foot of Columbus -- Fisherman's Wharf.
But Boeing is anything but a pure play on airliners, with half its business in defense work, so the best way to bet on the 787 may be among its suppliers.
Once again, the reason he was able to make so much money on his bet against mortgages was because the broadly held view in a very deep market was that the only direction for mortgage bonds was up.
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So it's a fair bet he won't be waving an England flag as Roy Hodgson's men begin their European Championship campaign.
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