41. Yet it was a bad bet. 42. And, remember that buying the current skyrocketing fund is a bad bet. 43. Barings blames the bad bets of a single young trader in its Singapore office. 44. Barings blames the bad bets of a single trader in its Singapore office. 45. However, bad bets on derivatives are only part of the problem. 46. It might have been a bad bet and rumors already abound that major European teams like Juventus are trying to buy him. 47. It shows that in the modern world of computerized finance, one person can make the bad bets that bring down an entire institution. 48. Robertson has made some bad bets of late. 49. There was much speculation that Leeson made a few bad bets and doubled up, hoping to avoid getting into trouble. 50. When losses mounted from bad bets on currency movements, he allegedly tried to hide the losses with phony options contracts normally used to hedge risk. |