Analysis of People’s perception on Narendra Modi’s visit to BRICS 2014Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who attended the BRICS summit 2014 in Brazil, addressed the leaders of the five-nation grouping and stressed on the fact that it should be driven by people-to-people contact led by the youth of the five nations.Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his maiden visit to the BRICS […]
LikeTweet+1Football (soccer) is a religion of sorts in much of the world. Everything stops for the big games, and the World Cup is about as big as it gets. Earlier this week, as everyone nervously prepared to watch what was sure to be an epic match-up between hometown favorite Brazil, and football juggernaut Germany – (Spoiler Alert – Germany basically […]
What “harsh weather”, aka completely unpredictable cold snaps and snow during the winter were to Q1 US GDP, which somehow cratered from an expected 2.5% increase to a -2.9% collapse (a $200 billion negative swing in the US economy due to weather, let that sink in for a second), the Brazil world cup may be to the stock market. At […]
Think of dozens of different derivatives … of the same company.Suppose Boeing has an exciting airline project that is riskier than most airline projects. One way to do this is to create different classes of shares that cover different risk profiles. There will be Boeing A Shares, Boeing B Shares and a Boeing R Share for higher-risk projects. Those will likely trade […]
Analysis provided by Ashton Fraser, learn more about his trading strategies at the Lasers forex forum. As another week comes to a close, Bitcoin has returned back to the levels it reached at the end of last week, as the support we spoke about has stayed firm. During midweek, I posted the following BTC/USD Weekly chart: Where I […]
Originally published June 27, 2014 at 6:36 AM | Page modified June 28, 2014 at 2:42 AM
NEW YORK — Summertime settled into Wall Street on Friday as major stock indexes drifted slightly higher going into the weekend. The listless day of trading left the stock market with a tiny loss for the week, its second this month.A handful […]
Trading volume of the global stock exchanges are expected to dry-up during the 2014 World Cup with Chile looking to be so slow you would think it was closed based on 2010 experience.A European Central Bank study looked at 15 different countries, nine in Europe, four in Latin America, the US and host country South Africa, and how trading volumes […]
Below is a look at the quarter-to-date and year-to-date stock market performance for 75 countries around the world. So far this quarter, the average change for the 75 countries shown has been +1.12%. For the year, the average country is up 4.76%. In 2013, the US found itself in the top half of the list in terms […]
Below is a look at the quarter-to-date and year-to-date stock market performance for 75 countries around the world. So far this quarter, the average change for the 75 countries shown has been +1.12%. For the year, the average country is up 4.76%. In 2013, the US found itself in the top half of the list in terms […]
Yesterday, I read an article on the website of Scientific American titled “Saving Big Data from Big Mouths” by Cesar A. Hidalgo. As you know if you read this blog regularly, I have grave concerns about the hyperbolic claims of Big Data and believe that it is little more than a marketing campaign to sell expensive technology products and services. […]
