Platfora, a startup focused on bringing businesses intelligence from big data, has raised $38 million led by Tenaya Capital, which brings the company’s total financing to $65 million. Also participating in this round are Citi Ventures, Cisco Systems and Allegis Capital, as well as prior investors Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and In-Q-Tel.Platfora works with existing Hadoop clusters, […]
2014 is no party for stock market investors. January was a smack in the face, especially newcomers, as the markets decided to go for a 5 percent nosedive. But they again recovered in February and some indices put up new all-time highs; others are on the fence and you can feel that doubt is creeping in as investors are starting […]
Stock Market Crash Five-Year Anniversary Has Investors WorriedStock-Markets / Financial CrashMar 11, 2014 – 02:38 PM GMTBy: Money_Morning
Tara Clarke writes: The stock market crash this week that occurred five years ago this Sunday marks a solemn anniversary for U.S. stock markets.Subprime financial crisis-related events would ultimately become responsible for five out of the top ten biggest single-day […]
Highlights from Sentiment Analysis Symposium held recently in New York: Affective Computing: sentiment from facial expressions, need to market to a “tribe” of people, social media speed of appearance, IBM notion of an Engaged Employee, and more. By Steve Gallant, March 10, 2014.Here are some personal impressions on Sentiment Analysis Symposium (New York, March 6, 2014). It was […]
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Russia’s financial system punished Vladimir Putin far more swiftly than western diplomacy on Monday, as the Moscow stock market suffered one of its biggest one-day falls in recent years and the rouble tumbled sharply in a first nervous reaction to the Kremlin’s gambit in Crimea.Some £34bn was wiped off the value of companies on the Moscow stock exchange on Monday […]
Zale’s stock price tripled in the past year before it gained 41 percent on Feb. 19 when Signet Jewelers, the parent company of Kay and Jared, said it’s buying the Irving-based retailer. A reader asked why Zale stock has been trading above $21 a share? It closed at $21.71 on Thursday and is trading around that today. Signet Jewelers is […]
Goodbye SAC Capital. Hello SEC Capital. A new study released by Rajgopal of Emory and White of Georgia State confirms what most have long known: SEC employees are immaculate stock pickers and “that a hedge portfolio that goes long on SEC employees’ buys and short on SEC employees’ sells earns positive and economically significant abnormal returns of (i) about 4% […]
Screenshot, CNBCCarter Worth, the Chief Technical Analyst at Oppenheimer has left the firm for Sterne Agee.
This is big in the world of technical analysts. Worth is known for having predicted the 2007 market top to the week. He does a lot of media, and is widely known for writing what Ritholtz Wealth Management CEO Joshua Brown called The “Greatest. Research. […]
