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Light Volume Session as Market digests Fed Meeting

As March Madness begins the market had a solid quiet inside consolidation day.  Biotech stocks were once again the talk of the town as many stocks were jumping higher.  Once again small cap stocks were the winners today with the NASDAQ Composite just behind.  The Dow led to the downside as pressure from a rising dollar continues to be the […]

Top 5 Cannabis Stocks to Watch in 2015

CORAL GABLES, FL / ACCESSWIRE / February 11, 2015 / It’s been a long and rough road for a push toward universal legalization of marijuana in the US. Since the early beginnings in California many decades ago with medical marijuana to the latest trail being blazed from states like Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, this has certainly become a growth […]

Signs point to New York Stock Exchange going up for sale | New …

The New York Stock Exchange is back in play — and it may be sold lock, “stock” and building as soon as next year, The Post has learned.Big Board owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is laying the groundwork. The latest all-out drive to make it more profitable, powered by better and faster technology — and a regulatory overhaul to regain market […]

3rd Nov: Sentiment Analysis of the Apple Inc Stock – The Stockal …

Question: do you think social and mass media sentiments are affecting some of the stock prices? No, we are not talking about a Tweet here or a popular Facebook post there from some mighty trader, we are talking about sentiments across the board, calculated over thousands of trader sound bytes!Answer: ?Well,  truly speaking – who knows! But the truth is that even […]

Robinhood snags $13M to make stock trading hip | VentureBeat …

You have to wonder why a startup is named after an English folklore hero who stole from the rich to give to the poor.For the founders of Robinhood, the inspiration came from the fees that stock brokerage firms charge their customers simply for making trades. To fight these fees, the company announced today that it has raised $13 million in […]

Big Data measuring dollar value of college degrees – Nashua …

RALEIGH, N.C. – To make the most money coming out of a North Carolina university, study nuclear engineering and you’ll earn almost $90,000 a year. To make the least, study dramatic theater and earn $10,400.Amid the sluggish economic recovery, many families are wondering how best to make their increasingly expensive investment in college pay off. North Carolina’s public universities and […]

Big Data Meets Big Compute | Peter Levine

Big Data Meets Big Compute
The promise of big data has ushered in an era of data intelligence. From machine data to human thought streams, we are now collecting more data each day, so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. In fact, every day, we create 2.5 quintillion […]

U.S. Stock Market On The 'Edge Of Tomorrow' | Seeking Alpha

SummaryMarkets tend to reset.
Resetting can be difficult for the long-duration common stock investor.
Market timing requires one to live on the “edge of tomorrow.”
Recently, we heard a market prognosticator declare that we could have a 30 percent decline in stock prices in the next 12 months. Presumably because investors fear starting over again, like many did at the market bottom in […]

The Question For The Stock Market On The Federal Reserve Side …

SummaryRight now investors love what the Federal Reserve is doing even though more and more commentators want the Fed to start moving to higher interest rates.
The stock market remains near historic highs even though many indicators, like CAPE, point to the market being over-valued.
Even if the stock market is over-valued, the crucial question concerns the timing of a downward adjustment.
Investors […]

Bitcoin Technical Analysis 16th July | Forex Minute – Financial News …

Bitcoin Technical Analysis 16th JulyBy Forexminute – Yes Option | Bitcoin | Jul 16, 2014 11:31AM BSTAfter all the extreme volatility in the digital currency over the last few weeks, we saw another day where neither the bulls nor the bears are making any noticeable impact. As seen from the BTC/USD hourly chart, the pair is finding itself well and […]