Tag Archives: Bets

Before Kentucky’s TyTy Washington Jr. even released a wild 3-pointer at the buzzer, doomsday Arkansas bettors had to know it was going in. Those who took the Razorbacks -3 at BetMGM felt good on Saturday afternoon, but only for a moment. Arkansas took a lead late in the game and was on the verge of a nice win over the Wildcats. Arkansas led 73-70 in the final 30 seconds when Kentucky missed a three and had to foul. Davonte Davis missed a free throw with 13 seconds left but hit the second one,… Source link

Just eight teams remain in the quest for the Super Bowl. Many consider the NFL divisional round the best football weekend of the year. The stakes are high. The pretenders are gone. In theory, there should be no blowouts like we saw last weekend. Just the league’s eight best teams fighting it out for the right to continue their season. Our staff sat down and took a look at this weekend’s slate from a betting point of view. What’s your best bet for the divisional round? Nick Bromberg: I’m going… Source link

Shark Tank host and real estate guru Barbara Corcoran is putting her money where her mouth is and scooping up shares of real estate marketplace giant Zillow (Z). Since being asked in a November Yahoo Finance interview if Zillow shares bottomed after falling 21% on news the company was ending its home buying operation, Corcoran says she was confident enough to jump on the stock.      “I did invest in Zillow, remember you asked me last time?” she said Thursday on Yahoo Finance Live. “I did,… Source link

Every retail investor wants to ensure a solid portfolio return. The only question is, how? The stock market produces a vast mine of data, that by its nature forms a barrier to access. Some investors take a path of low resistance, and follow one or more market legends. These legends are the giants of the investing world, people like Steven Cohen. The billionaire trader behind Point72 Asset Management has shown that he can survive the vicissitudes of Wall Street. After recovering from Federal… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Michael Burry may have ditched some of his biggest shorts — at least for now. Most Read from Bloomberg Scion Asset Management, which Burry founded and runs as chief executive officer, had cut back to only a handful of positions as of the end of September, according to a regulatory filing made on Monday. Among trades that the firm closed in the third quarter were bets against Cathie Wood’s flagship ARK Innovation ETF, Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. and the biggest Treasuries… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Soros Fund Management increased its bets on real estate and financial stocks during the last quarter, while the value of its U.S. equity portfolio dipped to less than $5 billion. Most Read from Bloomberg George Soros’s investment firm disclosed new positions in Hill-Rom Holdings Inc., MGM Growth Properties LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., according to a regulatory filing Friday. The New York-based firm increased stakes in IHS Markit Ltd. and homebuilder… Source link

Facebook (FB) is changing its name to Meta as it focuses on the metaverse, a series of interconnected, persistent virtual worlds that let people interact with digital objects and avatars. The company’s existing Facebook app will still retain its name.  CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the rebranding during the company’s Connect conference on Thursday, which offered a further glimpse into the company’s plans for the so-called metaverse in the coming decade. “We believe the metaverse will be the… Source link

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC), the special purpose acquisition which plans to take former President Donald Trump’s social media venture public slid 10% on Monday afternoon after short-seller Iceberg Research announced it was betting against the stock. “We are short $DWAC,” wrote Iceberg Research in a tweet.  DWAC shares had jumped more than 800% over the span of two sessions last week after Digital World Acquisition announced it was taking Trump Media and Technology Group… Source link

A visitor takes a photo in front of digital work “Untitled (Self-Portrait)” by Andy Warhol and digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, at the Digital Art Fair, in Hong Kong, China September 30, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu Since NBA Top Shots and artist Beeple’s digital collage that sold from Christie’s for $69 million this year, the NFT investing craze has only gotten hotter. Artists from Snoop Dog to singer-songwriter Grimes and rock band Kings of Leon made huge profits minting these… Source link

Google’s giant data centres are temples of the information age. Built for consumer services that reach billions of people, they also serve as a platform for the search company’s push into cloud computing — a market that could one day be even larger than its advertising business. This week, however, Google tried a different tack. In its latest bid to catch up with Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing, it took a step beyond its own data centres. In the process, it shone a… Source link