LikeTweet+1Football (soccer) is a religion of sorts in much of the world. Everything stops for the big games, and the World Cup is about as big as it gets. Earlier this week, as everyone nervously prepared to watch what was sure to be an epic match-up between hometown favorite Brazil, and football juggernaut Germany – (Spoiler Alert – Germany basically […]
By Cris SheridanOver the last several years, two powerful forces have helped to drive the stock market far higher than many have expected. The first, as we all know, has been very loose monetary policy through a combination of low rates and continuous rounds of QE by the Federal Reserve.The second has been the record amount of stocks bought by […]
A CFD, or Contract for Difference, is an agreement between two parties to exchange the difference between the opening price and closing price of a contract.CFDs are derivatives products that allow you to trade on live market price movements without actually owning the underlying instrument on which your contract is based.A trader can use CFDs to speculate on the future […]
The debate is a hot one, and a lot of non-technical privacy regulators have been led on by sweet promises from the companies that they regulate about the possibility of creating booming markets in highly sensitive personal data that is somehow neutralized through a magic “de-identification” process that lets information about, say, the personal lives of cancer patients be bought […]
Stock Market Second Day of SellingStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jul 09, 2014 – 12:02 PM GMTBy: PhilStockWorldCourtesy of Doug Short.Another day of no economic news coupled with fretting about Q2 earnings took its toll on the market. The S&P 500 opened in the shallow red at its intraday high and sold off to its -0.92% intraday low early in the […]
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The expectations of the German national team this World Cup has been immense. And it has been building ever since their great run in the European Championship in 2012, where the DFB (German Football Association) was knocked out in the semifinal by the eventual Italian runners up. The entire, soccer crazed, nation of Germany was heartbroken. The German side was […]
US Postal Service Sees Benefits of Big Data. Procurement Should Too
07-Jul-14 10:00In case anyone had doubts, it’s now official that the “big data” revolution has gone mainstream: The US Postal Service is looking at big data and the analytical capabilities it promises to develop and implement its planned “Internet of Postal Things.” If the Postal Service, which probably collects more […]
What “harsh weather”, aka completely unpredictable cold snaps and snow during the winter were to Q1 US GDP, which somehow cratered from an expected 2.5% increase to a -2.9% collapse (a $200 billion negative swing in the US economy due to weather, let that sink in for a second), the Brazil world cup may be to the stock market. At […]
Excerpted from ‘Tangible Ideas’ via Sean Corrigan of Diapason Commodities,So where does this leave us, in financial markets, at the mid-point of the year, other than with asset prices through the roof?As can be gathered from the faux lamentations issuing forth from those central banking Uriah Heeps who sit wringing their hands at the dangers inherent in a ‘search for […]
