Insider Stock Trading: Carl Icahn Buys Shares Of Navistar …

Welcome to our daily roundup of top insider trades. Here’s a look at the most significant inside purchases recently filed with the SEC.Notable Purchases:
The billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, a beneficial owner of commercial and military truck company Navistar International (NYSE:NAV), bought 1,027,789 shares of company stock for $34,205,404.

The venture capital firm Polaris Venture Management bought 1,470,582 shares of clinical-stage oncology-focused company Cerulean Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CERU) […]

BrightContext Acquired By WealthEngine To Bring Big Data To …

As BrightContext co-founder and CEO John Funge told TechCrunch in 2012, “What Twilio is to telephony, BrightContext is to real-time data streams.” It’s with that hook that WealthEngine scooped up the company to add BrightContext’s real-time analysis capabilities to its chest of marketing and fundraising tools.BrightContext launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 promising to deliver real-time analysis of big data. The […]

Odds favor a 10-20 percent correction: Strategist – CNBC.com

Stocks could be setting up for a 10 percent to 20 percent correction, and the odds are good that it will be soon, according to Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P/Capital IQ. Stovall has been expecting a 10 to 20 percent correction this year, but he says it’s more likely to begin during the second […]

Assessing The Recent Stock Market Damage [McDonald's …

SummaryStocks endured another round of volatility this week, including a sharp sell-off on Thursday and Friday.
The latest pullback in stocks raises some natural questions.
Is this the beginning of a sustained correction, or is this just another pullback and a good buying opportunity?
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Stocks could be challenged by momentum meltdown as earnings …

But the selloff in the frothiest names in the stock market that caused a 2.6 percent decline in the Nasdaq on Friday alone is what investors will be watching. That was the worst day for the Nasdaq since November, 2011. “It’s a little bit of a warning, but I’m taking it as a late-cycle signal, which would […]

Tweed Marijuana Inc. fourth most-traded stock on TSX Friday …

Tweed Marijuana Inc., the first publicly traded Canadian producer of the drug, rose from its private placement price as it began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.Tweed rose to $2.52 at 2:07 p.m. in Toronto Friday, up 183% from the issue price of 89 cents based on a private placement on March 7. The shares sank from an opening price […]

Lessons in stockmarket endurance | Stuff.co.nz

Lessons in stockmarket endurance

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Last updated 05:00 30/03/2014
ALEX LIU/Fairfax NZON THE ALERT: Harbour Asset Management boss Andrew Bascand takes nothing for granted.
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Why a mean reversion would be mean to the stock market – The …

If the benchmarks used to determine the value of securities were to suddenly reverse course, the “new normal” could soon be history.By Shawn Tully, senior editor-at-largeFORTUNE — Seldom have so many of the metrics that influence stock prices strayed so far from the long-term trends we’ve come to consider “normal.” Corporate earnings are far above what’s normal historically, interest rates […]

Two Words You Don't Hear Much When The Stock Market Is In

REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.We’re Far From Euphoria (MarketMinder) Stocks had a record year in 2013, with the S&P 500 returning 30%. Now many wonder if the market looks frothy and if we’re overdue for a correction. “It’s been a long time since […]

Platfora, a big data analytics company, raises $38 million – Fortune …

CEO Ben Werther asks: Who needs a gut feeling in business when you’ve got the facts?Platfora says it can analyze all of a company’s data to help executives make better decisions.FORTUNE — The big data startup Platfora announced on Wednesday that it raised $38 million in a series C round led by Tenaya Capital.The round also included Citi Ventures, Cisco, […]