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Archive for April, 2009

• Brazil’s Bond Yields Fall as Investors Bet on Further Rate Cuts (Bloomberg)

  Thursday, April 30th, 2009

  April 30 (Bloomberg) — Brazil’s local-currency bond yields fell for a fourth day as investors bet policy makers will keep cutting interest rates to shore up growth in Latin America’s largest economy.

• Options Recap: Bears Bet Against AutoNation (TheStreet.com)

  Thursday, April 30th, 2009

  Bearish investors bet against AutoNation while bulls eyed Boyd and Wyndham, according to OptionMonster.

• Shares Rally in a Rejection of Pessimism (New York Times)

  Thursday, April 30th, 2009

  It may still be months before the economy turns around, but investors on Wednesday were acting as if a recovery was just around the bend, and bet heavily that the worst economic declines were over.

• BET skews older with new channel (News On 6 Tulsa)

  Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

  Viacom’s BET Networks will launch a new channel targeting the middle-aged African-American demographic.

• Sky Go Non-Runner No Bet In Guineas (Sporting Life via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport)

  Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

  Sky Bet go non-runner no bet from Tuesday on both the 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas.

• Bet On Muni Bonds (Forbes)

  Monday, April 27th, 2009

  Fears that they’ll default are overblown. Bet on them to outperform Treasuries in the near term too.

• Minister Lord West Denies Bet Against Govt (SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

  Monday, April 27th, 2009

  The Sunday Times reported yesterday that an unnamed minister had told friends that he bet against an outright Labour victory at odds of 66-1 in mid-2007.

• Labour minister denies placing ’substantial’ bet on Brown election defeat (Daily Mail)

  Monday, April 27th, 2009

  Labour minister denies placing ’substantial’ bet on Brown election defeat

• Minister’s bet that Gordon Brown is a loser (Times Online)

  Saturday, April 25th, 2009

  A GOVERNMENT minister has placed a large bet with bookmakers at 66-1 on Labour not winning the next general election.

• Horse players can bet on Churchill races with Youbet.com (Louisville Courier-Journal)

  Saturday, April 25th, 2009

  Horse players will be able to bet on Churchill Downs’ races through the Youbet.com account-wagering platform, Churchill Downs Inc. spokesman Kevin Flanery reported. Churchill’s meet starts this afternoon.

• BET targets older viewers with new channel (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

  Saturday, April 25th, 2009

  BET Networks on Thursday took the wraps off a new basic-cable channel designed to attract an older, more affluent segment of the black television audience.

• US star donates winnings from bet to fight malaria (AFP via Yahoo! News)

  Friday, April 24th, 2009

  Actor Ashton Kutcher has pledged to donate 100,000 dollars he won in a bet with television network CNN to help fight the spread of malaria, the UN Children’s Fund said Friday.

• Do New Jerseyans want sports betting? You bet! (Covers.com)

  Monday, April 20th, 2009

  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -Do New Jerseyans want to be able to wager on professional sports events at Atlantic City casinos or horse racing tracks? You bet! A new poll shows state residents favor legalizing sports betting in the nation’s second-larg…

• The Best Bet (New York Magazine)

  Sunday, April 19th, 2009

  Plastic shoes, sometimes called jellies, started a comeback last year.

• Gomez will ride Pioneerof the Nile in the Derby (Sports Illustrated)

  Sunday, April 19th, 2009

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Jockey Garrett Gomez is placing his Kentucky Derby bet on Pioneerof the Nile.