Most investment books aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Authors who have never experienced real investment success espouse the conventional wisdom: index funds, blue chips, buy and hold, etc…Every once in a while, however, there is a true gem: Reminisces Of A Stock Operator, My Story by Bernard Baruch, How To Make Money In Stocks by William O’Neil, No […]
While it’s great fun and can be extremely rewarding to play the stock market (our own tips have performed pretty well as well), the main function of the stock market is to allocate capital.The joint stock company with public listing of shares started in our native Amsterdam at the beginnings of the 17th century, and it was clearly a very […]
“Where I’d avoid is the consumer-related names. Stay away from the retail-type of names. I think consumer confidence is going to be hit hard,” he said. “But I think some of these commodity names take a bid. The dollar continues to get weaker. Emerging market data gets better, so a Rio Tinto, that type of names—those are where […]
Curated discussion service Branch launches publicly with highlights, activity feeds, Spotify supportThe NRA launches a target-practice shooting app on iOS…for ages 4+AppsInsiderUKSocial trading: DCM Dealer uses Twitter and Facebook sentiment to help traders make investment decisions
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Erin Griffith
Erin Griffith covers New York startups for PandoDaily. She’s worked as staff writer for Adweek and a private equity blogger for peHUB. Her writing has appeared in Venture Capital Journal, BBC.com, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, FT.com, and BUST. She plays keyboard in a band called Team Genius and Tweets […]
Wall Street is no autobahn. Traders pushing pedal to the metal risk hurtling into the Buttonwood Trees. Knight Capital’s $440 million computer-generated smash-up this month is the latest sign that the world’s most important financial superhighway, where trades take place in less than the blink of an eye, sorely needs a speed limit. Michael Goldstein, a professor of […]
Worldreader and FC Barcelona team up to send one million e-books to sub-Saharan AfricaMobile deals company Scoutmob raises $3.25 million, inks deal with First DataAppsEuropeInsiderSocial MediaUKUncategorizedA new app promises to let anyone use social media sentiment to guide them in the stock market
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