zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 05/07/2015 12:51Three days ago, when looking at the unprecedented, record outflows from US equities (coupled with continued inflow into bond funds into what BofA’s Hans Mikkelsen would likely dub the Great Antirotation) we asked a simple question: “who is buying… no really“.Then yesterday, the spoofing algos were briefly spooked when Yellen, for the second […]
Thomson ReutersWorkers prepare for the opening of an Apple store in HangzhouBy Noel RandewichSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Activist Investor Carl Icahn thinks Apple Inc is already worth over $1 trillion but others on Wall St. think it will take a few more years for the iPhone maker’s stock value to get there.With Apple’s stock market value ballooning this week beyond […]
SummaryAmerican stock investors and speculators started pouring capital back into gold this week in a serious way, aggressively buying GLD ETF shares.
This buying was so massive that GLD had to shunt enough stock capital into physical gold bullion to grow its holdings by their fastest pace in about 5 years.
And this is likely just the beginning, as American stock investors […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil and gas companies led U.S. stocks up Friday, setting the market up for its first gain in more than a week.KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 16 points, or 0.8 percent, to 2,009, as of 3 p.m. Energy companies led all 10 of the index’s industries to gains, surging 3 percent.The Dow […]
Earlier this year, the European Central Bank held a two-day workshop on big data and how it can be used for forecasting. The headline speaker was Hal Varian, chief economist at Google and a number cruncher of rock star status.
Varian outlined the power of Google Trends and Google Correlate, the company’s big data tools. “With Google Trends, you type in […]
Argentina: Rioro SA has been awarded a 166m pesos contract to repair 28 type CT16A wagons for Belgrano Cargas y Logística. This and a 60m pesos contract to repair 10 CT54 wagons are being undetaken by the Rioro workshops at Pérez.Brazil: Porto Alegre metro operator Trensurb has awarded CAF Brasil a R$79·7m contract to maintain its 25 four-car trainsets for […]
About 60 percent of organizations are in the process of shifting resources from their existing data management investments to Hadoop, according to research from Wikibon.org, while 30 percent intend to begin on the journey by the end of the year. For Chris Selland, a former longtime analyst and current vice president of marketing and business development at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Vertica […]
OANDA Partners with Autochartist to Roll out Two Technical Analysis FeaturesBy Forexminute – Yashu Gola | Forex Industry News | Jul 16, 2014 11:36PM BSTForex brokerage OANDA has released two innovative technical analysis options to its customers through its content alliance with Autochartist: Correlating Signals and Our Favorites.The Correlating Signals feature, which is limited only to OANDA fxTrade users, will […]
Following last week’s announcement by the European Central Bank (ECB), the stock market has now broken out above its mostly sideways movement since the beginning of the year to new all-time highs. Over the course of this bull market, each time the market has begun to show weakness, many have expected a selloff to occur only to then find the […]
Russia’s stock market is one of the cheapest in the world. As the conflict with Ukraine drags on — or escalates — it will only get cheaper.This isn’t a temporary correction or a short-term aberration. Russian shares will continue to be volatile, and nimble traders could do quite well if they take advantage of that. But to the detriment of […]
