Selling pressure in technology and momentum stocks dragged benchmarks down on Monday and the S&P 500 closed in the red for the year. Separately, biopharmaceutical company Pfizer weighed heavily on the Dow. The day’s economic report on consumer credit hardly influenced investors and they are now focusing on first quarter earnings reports.For a look at the issues currently facing the […]
At the age of 29, I began my journey as a self-directed investor, trading part time before and after work. Over the years I honed my skills and now trade full time. As I look back from where I began five years ago, I realise that being a “millennial” investor has its advantages. Here are three reasons why.
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Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has been on a tear lately, and is regularly setting new highs as it hovers round $41 for the first time since the dot-com days of 2000. MSFT stock is up almost 45% in the past year, double the 21% or so for the S&P 500 in the same period.As I wrote recently, one obvious catalyst for MSFT has […]
I answered this question on Quora and happened to see Indian news channels flaunting social media statistics on the National Elections the same day. That’s what inspired me to start writing this post. Why was the #Oscar selfie such a big deal and why is social media analytics so hot today?SelfiesHistory was created on Twitter when a tweet by Ellen […]
Can Tweets And Facebook Posts Predict Stock Behavior? “Like” And RT If You Think So
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March 19, 2014 Another social media data analysis firm, Social Market Analytics, used its coverage of 400,000 Twitter (Nasdaq:TWTR) accounts last August to tell its clients that positive chatter on Apple was percolating just before legendary trader Carl Icahn issued a Twitter statement stating he […]
Higinio O. Maycotte is CEO of Umbel, a company that uses data to increase the understanding media companies have of their audiences and online advertising revenue. Knight Foundation supports Umbel through its Enterprise Fund. Below, Maycotte writes about the theme of the first Knight News Challenge of 2014: How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation?
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By George LeongAt the beginning of the year, I thought the technology sector would deliver some of the top potential for gains this year.Nearly two months into the year, the technology sector has, so far, made the biggest strides in what has been a relatively cautious start to the year.So far this February, the technology sector is leading the broader […]
John Wanamaker, the innovative Philadelphia merchant who pioneered the modern department store in the Gilded Age, was such a fan of newspapers that he is credited with buying the first full-page ad. But even Wanamaker knew that the most efficient form of advertising available in the 1890s wasn’t terribly efficient at all. “Half the money I spend on advertising […]
Intel’s new data-focused chipset promises better performance power and triple the memory capacity.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Intel is upping the ante for crunching big data, promising to double the performance over the previous generation with the new Xeon E7 v2 chipset.The Xeon processor E7 8800/4800/2800 v2 product family is designed to support up to 32-socket servers with configurations of up to […]
