11.   Indeed, Nasdaq has become an extremely risky bet for mutual funds and individual investors who have stuck with tech stocks as they have deflated this year.

12.   It seems a risky bet, but then Vietnam does not always turn out the way Americans expect.

13.   It shows stock-fund investors making increasingly risky bets on a small group of companies.

14.   It was also a way for the company to hedge the risky bets it made on drug development.

15.   Moreover, derivatives are only one way to make risky bets.

16.   Mortgage derivatives are highly risky bets on the direction of interest rates.

17.   Others explain the effect as the greater willingness of money managers to place risky bets on stocks at the beginning of the year.

18.   Still, the decision to use the reserve for raising dividends could be a risky bet.

19.   That could be a risky bet this season.

20.   They would do so knowing that if their risky bets went sour, Uncle Sam would bail them out.