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Investors Are Getting Increasingly Panicked About A Potential Stock…

Yale via Schwab.comThe Crash Confidence Index has gone down steadily since the beginning of 2014.FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. Investors Are Getting Increasingly Worried About A Market Crash (Charles Schwab)Investment strategist Liz Ann Sonders considers several measures of individual and institutional investor sentiment in her latest market perspective […]

Ethan Harris On Correlations And Fed Balance Sheet – Business …

Bank of America Merrill LynchSee AlsoEurope’s Contribution To Global Profits Has Gone Off A CliffUBS On Stocks: ‘Roll Tide, Roll…’BofA: When The Stock Market Peaks, Gold Will Be The ‘Tell’Is the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing stimulus program responsible for stock market gains?There are two schools of thought on this: Yes, and No.The Yes camp maintains that the easy money being […]

How big data has become accessible to everyone | VentureBeat …

It’s been the narrative of technology since the wheel was invented. Something is new, exciting … and expensive. Then we find a way to mass produce it (or something similar). Processes get better, and equipment gets cheaper. Consumers save big. Then something new comes out.Lather, rinse, repeat.When big data first rose to market prominence, critics were quick to pounce on […]

Making Big Data Think Bigger – NYTimes.com

PhotoA graphic visualization of the mobile industry, ranging from hardware makers to media providers. Software, denoted in yellow, plays an increasingly large and interconnected role in the industry.Credit Rahul BasoleBig-data management promises a significant shift in the way decisions are made across the economy. Abundant new sources of data from the web, sensors and smartphones, mined for patterns and insights […]

Apple's iPhone 6 Stirs Up Techies' Social Sentiment

Tim Cook stated, “it is the next chapter in Apple’s story” as the technology giant revealed their latest batch of high-end consumer technology products, the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch at the Flint Performing Arts Center in Cupertino, California. The live-streamed event was visible around the world and millions responded almost instantly via social media, speaking along a series […]

Five Factors In Building Giants Of The Big Data Era | TechCrunch

Editor’s note: Navin Chaddha is managing director of Mayfield, an early-stage venture capital firm. Some of the companies he is currently championing include Gigya, Elastica, Lyft, MapR and Poshmark.As we enter the second half of 2014, it would be fair to say that big data has gone mainstream, attracting coffee table books, multiple industry landscapes, consumer applications, and large amounts of […]

A Company Called ISIS Had A Massive Day On The Stock Market

AP ImagesThe Ibis T5000(TM) Biosensor SystemISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has gotten lots of attention for the terror it has brought to the Middle East.
Unfortunately, this has attracted the wrong kind of attention to companies that coincidentally share the same name as the extremist group.Take ISIS Pharmaceuticals. This $4.3 billion biotech firm surged 10% today, and […]

Guest Post: Who needs big data? – Travolution.co.uk

By Matthew Napleton, marketing director of ZizoThe promise is timely access to essential business insight; the reality is a massive dent in the CFO’s budget. So why are organisations still investing in big data projects?For any CFO concerned about throwing good money after bad on big data deployments that are simply failing to deliver the information the business needs, there […]

ClearTV Trading On Bermuda Stock Exchange | Bernews.com

ClearTV Trading On Bermuda Stock ExchangeAugust 28, 2014ClearTV opened for trading on the Bermuda Stock Exchange [BSX] under the ticker symbol “CTV” after its Public Listing. Global Custody & Clearing Limited is the company’s listing sponsor and market maker to the BSX. The Company plans to dual list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange within the next week.Greg Wojciechowski, CEO of […]

Open thread for night owls: S&P passes stock-market milestone, but …

There was great economic news on Monday – for somebody.
Monday morning the stock market passed another historic milestone, as the S&P 500 composite index briefly passed the 2,000 mark before ending the day on a record-breaking high. That barrier had symbolic value for many investors, although perhaps not as much as the once-unimaginable goal of seeing the Dow Jones Industrial […]