Benchmarks settled in the red zone following reports that Russia has increased forces along its border with Ukraine. Investors’ apprehensions about a rate hike following strong economic data also weighed on markets. Dow’s three-digit decline eroded all of Monday’s gains, while fellow benchmarks also lost heavily.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s […]
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06.08.2014© Ron Turenne/Tennis CanadaTomas Berdych opens the stock market Tuesday with Toronto tournament director Karl Hale.It hasn’t all been about tennis for the players at this week’s ATP World Tour tournaments. ATPWorldTour.com provides a recap of the highlights.Rogers Cup – Toronto, CanadaTomas Berdych had an early wake-up call Tuesday as he […]
We discuss sentiment data models, significance of linguistic features, handling the noise in social conversations, industry challenges, important use cases and the appropriateness of over-simplified binary classification. By Anmol Rajpurohit, @hey_anmol, Aug 4, 2014.Vita Markman is currently employed as a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, where she works on various natural language processing applications such as performing sentiment analysis of customer […]
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Discussing Friday’s jobs data, and potential Fed action, with Suni Harford, Citigroup, and CNBC’s Steve Liesman.
Stocks—already seeing their worst week this year—could see a continued selloff in the coming days, O’Neil Securities Director Kenny Polcari said Friday.For the S&P 500, “1,910 is going to be the 100-day moving average. That’s going to be where at least […]
SE (ADR) (OTCMKTS:BASFY), ‘s business developed positively in the 2nd quarter of 2014. At €18.5 billion, sales rose by 1 % compared with the same period of the prior year. At around €2.1 billion, income from operations before special items surpassed the level of the 2ndquarter of 2013 by €221 million. Earnings increased considerably in the chemicals business and the […]
Dr. Ron Paul, former Congressman from Texas, Presidential candidate, and libertarian spokesman, declared on CNBC recently that he sees a stock market crash coming. Paul traces back what he believes is a stock market bubble to inflationary policies conducted by the Federal Reserve:
I think there’s plenty of inflation, but my definition of inflation is a little different than the rest, because I think […]
Following the latest liquidity injections by the PBOC (set to make 2014 the biggest credit creation year since Lehman), countless bailouts of insolvent companies by Beijing and local governments despite promises there would be no bailouts, and what some have dubbed is an actual Chinese QE, all making it quite clear that China was clearly not serious when it threatened […]
All three major US stock indexes fell Friday, capping the largest weekly decline in US stock markets in nearly two months. The catalyst for Friday’s sell-off was a very weak series of sales figures and projections from three corporations tied to consumer spending: Amazon, the largest online retailer; Wal-Mart, the largest brick-and-mortar retailer; and Visa, the credit and debit card […]
Chris Sheridan: The year 2016 will see a number of important events: the US presidential election, the Summer Olympics, and, according to a growing number of market analysts, another financial crisis.Why? What’s so special about 2016? That’s the interesting thing—they all have different reasons.First, I have to admit, I didn’t realize this pattern until it reached a certain level of blatant […]
The year 2016 will see a number of important events: the US presidential election, the Summer Olympics, and, according to a growing number of market analysts, another financial crisis.Why? What’s so special about 2016? That’s the interesting thing—they all have different reasons.First, I have to admit, I didn’t realize this pattern until it reached a certain level of blatant obviousness […]
