Sentence examples similar to speculative wagering from inspiring English sources
On the face of it that should be easy: the most popular forms of gambling slots, lotteries and casino games are simply bad bets which players are likely to lose.But rational individuals should not be prevented from indulging in the odd speculative wager, whether on a lottery ticket or in the housing market.
The investigation into the pick six bets that led to a payoff of $3 million in last month's Breeders' Cup now includes two similar payoffs on difficult and speculative wagers in early October at Belmont Park and an Illinois harness track, a state investigator and racing officials said yesterday.
Softening the rule, which prohibits banks from making speculative but profitable wagers, is part of the White House's deregulatory push.
The lawyers for Mr. Wiedeking and Mr. Härter said they were "astonished" that prosecutors had taken the side of investors who made "highly speculative and irrational wagers against the course of VW shares".
I look at the thick entanglements of an increasingly financialized social realm, film content, speculative commodity forms, and a penchant for wagering in late colonial Bombay.
The favourites are getting heavy in League Two, presenting us with a weekend when the preferred course of action is to dabble on a couple of speculative long shots in the absence of a single solid wager.
Is it rational to allow speculative, virtual trades equal to 12 times the planet's GDP to be wagered daily on financial markets?
Rather than Wild West cowboys and girls making big bad speculative bets with what amounted to funny money (since there was no required valuation of such wagers), the marketplace started serving a legitimate purpose: allowing businesses and investors to hedge legitimate credit risks related to trading positions and other assets.
Great Britain legalized wagering in 1960.
