Continuing the growth of its software business applying big data analytics technologies to the human resources market, Visier has managed to attract $25.5 million in new financing.The new round will help the company expand into new verticals and consolidate its position in the human resources category, according to investors and the company’s chief executive John Schwartz.The former head of Business […]
The recent divergence between equity prices and treasury yields has spooked investors who think lower rates are a sign of softer economic growth.Yet periods of decoupling are more common than you may think.Since 2000, the correlation between the S&P 500 and the U.S. 10-year treasury yield has sharply swung into negative territory eight times, said Brian Belski, chief investment strategist […]
Originally published June 9, 2014 at 6:27 AM | Page modified June 9, 2014 at 11:02 PM
NEW YORK — Call it the ho-hum market. Another day, another record high.News of a handful of corporate deals sent some stocks jumping Monday. And Family Dollar climbed following news that investor Carl Icahn has taken a stake in the company.With […]
Interview with Haitham Mubarak at Saudi Fransi Capital.
Saudi Fransi Capital (SFC) is the investment arm of Banque Saudi Fransi with a capital of SR 500 million. The Company is licensed by the Capital Market Authority to conduct the full-range of investment activities.
Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul stock market is the largest in the Gulf region. Why does it stand out?
You would say […]
DataTorrent made its primary product, DataTorrent RTS, generally available today. The product is built on top of Hadoop 2.0 and allows companies to process massive amounts of big data in real time.According to Phu Hoang, co-founder of the company, who was one of the first engineers at Yahoo! hired in 1996, the product can process more than a billion data events per second. Prior to […]
This week, Chris talks with Steen Jakobsen, Chief Investment Officer of Saxo Bank. We wanted to see through the eyes of a professional economist, which Steen kindly allowed us to do.Steen agrees that central banks have largely failed in their misguided attempts to boost growth via trickle-down programs. Pretty much all the benefits of the recent years of money printing […]
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
–Mark TwainSo let me get this straight: The GDP revision for first quarter came in far worse than economist estimates, and the stock market simply doesn’t care? Enough with the weather excuse. Enough with the Russia excuse. The bond market since day one of this year has been pessimistic on the economy. So far, […]
It isn’t a surprise to most that the biotech names have had a rough start to the year.
Really, March was pretty bad.
However, with the market recovering as of late, many of the beaten up biotech stocks have rebounded somewhat. A lot of analysts believe the rebound will continue.
As an investor, if you agree with those analysts, then it certainly wouldn’t […]
Capital Markets have always been on the forefront of adoption of new technology. Effective technology deployment in this industry has a direct impact on the bottom line of the organizations. Whether it is technology deployment for coming up with low latency applications where the trade is executed in less than a millisecond or an intelligent analytical model which is used […]
What is ‘big data’?Data is everywhere. It affects what you eat and how you drive; it powers our towns and shapes our economy. And one day it may help keep you alive.And as computers have got more powerful and sophisticated, we can now combine huge amounts of data together to generate even deeper insights about the world around us.Welcome to […]
