Low-cost airline Virgin America made an impressive debut on Nasdaq under the symbol ‘VA,’ riding on the favorable conditions prevailing in the U.S. aviation sector. Shares of the company jumped 30.43% ($7) to close at $30 on Nov 14. The company, partly owned by British billionaire investor Richard Branson, raised $307 million through the offering. Virgin America plans to use […]
Share on StockTwitsEmbedAs confident as I am in the social revolution and boom….I worry about all of the above in the title as I travel for a month talking to Stocktwits customers.Fun facts about global markets at this point in time:1. The US markets are at all-time highs (software and biotech continue to lead)2. Oil has dropped below $80/barrel for […]
That bright neon sign you’re looking at are biotech stocks flashing, “Buy me!”So put down your morning joe. Go ahead, do it. And ignore all incoming e-mail for the next few minutes. Because the biotech breakout has arrived — and it can make you a bundle over the next few months.That’s right. Forget about this month’s stock roller-coaster ride. Yeah, sure, it […]
Marrakech- Market traders on the London Stock Exchange are borrowing record amounts of cash to invest in the UK’s rising stock markets, according to an article in The Daily Telegraph.A similar borrowing streak caused the big stock market crash in 1929, the article points out. Substantial rises are being seen in world stock markets. The level of margin debt that […]
In an attempt to make the US Open even more dramatic than it already is, IBM has a tool that turns tennis stats into music. NY1’s Adam Balkin filed the following report.Might seem like something a high school math teacher tells his or her students in order to get them more enthusiastic about numbers but really, for the past few […]
Stock Market Fear Is GoodStock-Markets / Stock Market SentimentAug 25, 2014 – 11:52 AM GMTBy: Investment_USteve McDonald writes: Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK), the brainchild of Aubrey McClendon, has been though the ringer for the past few years. Its problems included McClendon using it as his personal piggy bank, or some such accusation; buying far too many assets in the shale […]
Stock Market Crash a Historical Pattern?Stock-Markets / Financial CrashAug 21, 2014 – 03:57 PM GMTBy: Wim_GrommenEvery production phase or civilization or other human invention goes through a so called transformation process. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation. In this article I will use one such transition to demonstrate the position of our present civilization and […]
HONG KONG Asian stocks sank Friday as jitters over the crises in Iraq and Ukraine escalated but Chinese stocks rose after trade figures showed surprisingly strong growth in exports.KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 led Asian declines, sliding 2.8 percent to 14,814.07 as the yen strengthened. South Korea’s Kospi lost 1.1 percent to 2,032.24 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 0.2 […]
Benchmarks settled in the red zone as concerns about the timing of a rate hike by the central bank rates kept investors jittery. Friday’s largely positive economic data could only lift the stocks momentarily as concerns from Thursday over a spike in US labor costs and a credit default by Argentina continued to weigh on investors. The S&P 500 posted […]
Readers Write: From Rice Fields to Big DataJuly 30, 2014Readers Write1 CommentFrom Rice Fields to Big DataBy Ping ZhangMy journey into technology was a long road. The first 15 years of my life were spent in the Hunan province in rural southern China. My family had no running water, and more often than not, we went to bed hungry.At five, […]
