Emergency contraceptive pills are very safe to use. Side effects, if they occur at all, are usually short-term and mild. Nausea has been reported in about 18%, or 18 out of 100 women using levonorgestrel emergency contraception. Vomiting may also occur in about 4% of women.
Gambling is a good example of speculative risk. Gambling involves deliberate creation of risk in the expectation of making a gain. There is also the possibility of sustaining a loss. A person betting $500 on the outcome of the next weekend English Premier League Match faces both the possibility of loss and of gain and of no loss, no gain.
Hereâs what to do: 1  Short-term losses counterbalance those expensive short-term gains. Whatâs left at the end of Part I of Form 8949 is the net short-term capital gain or loss. 2  Long-term losses are applied to long-term gains. The result, at the end of Part II of Form 8949, is the net long-term capital gain or loss. Again, if you have only a loss, then the net is a negative number.