For U.S. investors who own foreign stocks or stock funds, they are, in effect placing two bets: One on the stock itself and one on currency.
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When investors purchase a foreign stock or stock fund, they are actually placing two bets: one on the stock itself and the other on the currency the stock trades in.
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While the currency portion of the two bets has worked extraordinarily well for U.S. investors since 2002, it may be time to reduce exposure or take that bet off the table altogether.
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But one or two lucky bets don't make you into a Peter Lynch.
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One senior official said that if growth does not return in two years all bets are off.
Some bookmakers stopped taking bets on the League Two match on Friday after a high number of bets on Bury to win.
In terms of placing your bets, two competitors stand out here: Juniper and Cisco Systems.
Kirk became a billionaire thanks to big bets on two neuroscience drugs: Vyvanse, for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Viibryd, for depression.
In China, there seems to be a preference for advanced versions of CDMA as the platform for third-generation implementation, so it may not be so bad for Unicom to hedge its bets by operating two different networks.
Even in such an unpredictable contest, two outcomes are sadly fairly safe bets.
This is caused by taking big bets on one or two companies that are often tied to an employer or former employer.
Most auto companies have placed big bets on one or two alternative propulsion technologies while they dabble or play catch-up in others.
Zakaria: I think when you read the SEC's case carefully, frankly the civil case against Goldman is very weak, because what Goldman Sachs did was act as a bookie between two people who wanted to make bets.
Simmons estimates that serious shortages could quickly triple or quadruple the price within the next two years--and after that all bets are off.
Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) is liquidating two of its hedge funds that had leveraged bets in collateralized debt securities.
He predicted a few months ago that the EU had two years at most to restore growth or all bets are off.
Two prominent U.S. chief executives have big bets riding on the outcome of Boeing Co.
Two prominent U.S. chief executives have big bets riding on the outcome of Boeing's crisis with its 787 Dreamliner.
Options on Alcoa (nyse: AA - news - people ) saw heavy two-way trading this week in what may be bets that volatility may soon subside.
The big bets here are based on a sweeping convergence of two different networks.
Ladbroke says it had taken bets on the leadership contest, but stopped about two weeks before it officially started because of the overwhelming backing for Charles Kennedy.
Catherine's slip wasn't just front page news, however -- it caused a betting frenzy that forced two leading bookmakers, William Hill and Paddy Power, to suspend bets on the sex of the royal baby.
Without those two elements in place, growth simply becomes a game of foolishly placing bets when the odds are stacked against you.
However, Bell notes that comparing the amount of money spent on betting for the two events may not be wise, as the Super Bowl draws that amount of bets for just one game, whereas March Madness sees its amount over the span of 67 games.
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Unfortunately, most of the angel investors pursue an investment strategy of placing many bets, assuming most of them will be losers, and hope that one or two will be big winners that will more than offset their losses from the losers.
On two par-3s he allows himself to be goaded into closest-to-the-hole bets with Stern the marketer (Davis cleans him out).
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