Source: ThinkstockOptimism among individual investors rebounded strongly but still remains below average in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey. Neutral sentiment rose back above 39 percent, while pessimism fell below back below its historical average.Bullish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will rise over the next six months, rebounded by 7.3 percentage points to 34.5 percent. This is the largest weekly change and […]
Continuing their recent stop-and-go pattern of trading, U.S. stock prices fell sharply Friday, taking the major market indexes into negative territory for the week and, for many of them, for the year to date as well. The Dow declined 140 points or 0.8% Friday, matching the S&P 500′s 0.8% drop. NASDAQ, on renewed selling in internet stocks, lost 1.8% for […]
An investing strategy completely based on social media sentiment won’t make you rich, but stock-focused social media can boost your education as an investor and offer tips for further research. Read on for our blue chip pick of the best place on the Web to connect with other investors.By now we know that social media can’t predict the ebbs and […]
Len CostaIn his book The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham expresses a distinct wariness, if not outright disdain, for the wisdom of crowds. “You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you,” he penned. “You are right because your data and reasoning are right.” These days, the increasingly robust intersection between social media and professional finance seems to […]
Bloomberg’s headquarters in New Jersey, USAImage: Solarfeeds.comIt used to be the case that financial firms would block social media services such as Twitter on their systems to prevent their employees leaking sensitive information – and also to prevent them from timewasting at work. This was an effective strategy, with just one fairly major issue – Twitter was becoming a hugely […]
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it bought social data provider Gnip for an undisclosed amount, signaling that it would take on a new role of packaging and selling data, a service in demand by business and government.The social media company said separately that it hired a Google executive to lead its consumer product development, filling a position that […]
Right up until the chart below was prepared, it seemed the key point of this post was going to be that consumer sentiment is holding steady near some its best post-recession levels, but, in looking at the curve below it seems more important to ask what all the hubbub is about in the stock market that, according to some, is […]
Well, last we spoke, the market was searching hard for its next direction, and my oh my did it find it. Just for the sake of clarity, the direction found was down. While the major averages — the Dow (INDEXDJX:.DJI), S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX), Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) — only lost a few percentage points, the broad market of stocks has experienced a […]
Greece has been the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis. And its ongoing economic depression is highlighted by the fact that a quarter of its workforce still lines up at the unemployment office.However, there are more and more signs that things are turning around in Greece. “Greece has been the most conspicuous example of the dramatic improvement in sentiment towards […]
Greece has been the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis. And its ongoing economic depression is highlighted by the fact that a quarter of its workforce still lines up at the unemployment office.However, there are more and more signs that things are turning around in Greece. “Greece has been the most conspicuous example of the dramatic improvement in sentiment […]
