Originally published January 15, 2015 at 6:27 AM | Page modified January 16, 2015 at 1:57 AMSEOUL, South Korea —
Asian stocks were sharply lower Friday after a surprise move by the Swiss National Bank to abandon its efforts to keep its currency artificially cheap shocked the market.KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped 2.5 percent to 16,680.24 while South Korea’s Kospi […]
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The world’s US$58.5 billion man, investor Warren Buffett, has for many years highlighted the benefits of holding large chunks of cash. Buffett, via his company Berkshire Hathaway often holds billions in cash simply to allow himself the optionality of seizing opportunities when they present themselves.Interestingly, it appears some of Australia’s top investors are currently following in Buffett’s footsteps and getting […]
Get Forex buy/sell signals directly to your email and by SMS.To learn more click hereThe AUD/USD weakened to a two-month low on Friday after the Reserve Bank of Australia released its economic outlook. Although the RBA’s main concern is about the high dollar, traders decided to focus on rising geopolitical tensions that drove global investors from high-yielding assets and into […]
We discuss examples of discovery through sentiment mining, current trends, innovative applications, important soft skills, and more. By Anmol Rajpurohit, @hey_anmol, Aug 5, 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 feedback and extracting relevant information from job postings. Before joining […]
* US stock markets surged on the open and held on to those gains through to the close, as once again geopolitics took a back seat to the news of better US corporate earnings.* European stock markets rebounded overnight, snapping a three session losing streak, as traders set aside their concerns over the downed Malaysian flight and the Ukraine and […]
When Australian activists conducted a spoof solar energy installation assessment for their climate change-doubting Prime Minister Tony Abbot’s residence (“The Lodge”) last month, the intent may have been satirical, but the software they used is anything but. In fact, virtually simulating solar energy installations from afar has quietly become a commonplace in the solar industry, which is rapidly embracing big […]
Get Forex buy/sell signals directly to your email and by SMS.To learn more click hereSelling pressure could hit the AUD/USD when the Forex pair begins trading on Monday. Over the week-end, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens reiterated his belief of an overvalued Australian dollar when he said that investors may be underestimating the risk of a “material decline”.In […]
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Australian multi-service bitcoin company digitalBTC will make history today as the first cryptocurrency-focused company to trade on a major mainstream stock exchange.DigitalBTC, which began as a mining operation but also engages in bitcoin trading and is developing retail and consumer applications, debuted on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) this morning as Digital CC Limited (trading as digitalBTC; ASX code: DCC).The […]
