Good Reason for Stock Market Doom and GloomStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 10, 2014 – 05:24 AM GMTBy: Casey_Research
By Doug French, Contributing EditorPredicting the future, like getting old, ain’t for sissies. Questioning the bull market is even more treacherous.Howard Gold, writing for MarketWatch, makes fun of seers who made what he calls “the four worst predictions […]
One of the central requirements of Big Data is that you take a data-centric approach to cybersecurity. Well, that seems obvious enough – if your vital data is stored in huge repositories, it makes sense to secure said repositories – but apparently most people don’t get it.In a new paper from Gartner, Big Data Needs a Data-Centric Security Focus, the […]
Societe GeneraleWall Street’s strategists get paid tons of money to quibble over what stocks might do over the next year.
But most investors have longer-term time horizons to consider.Today, the analysts at Societe Generale update their 10-year outlook for the global stock markets.In brief, they don’t think investors should be anticipating the double-digit annual returns of the recent past.”US equities face […]
Stock Market Rally – Is this the End?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 03, 2014 – 10:25 AM GMTBy: John_Rubino
Eventually, every finance geek learns that calling market tops — at least publicly — is so hard that it’s not worth the reputation risk. This is especially […]
Hello!I’m Andrew Smithers; I studied economics at Cambridge and used to run the fund management business at S G Warburg which became Mercury Asset Management and is now BlackRock.I set up Smithers & Co in 1989 as an economics consultancy. Much of the comments on economics and markets that I read as a fund manager struck me as nonsense and […]
Five Reasons Why Big Researchers Should Lead in Big DataBig Data is getting bigger. The Information Age is chugging on, creating vast swathes of rich data on all facets of private and business life. In its wake, the world is coming to terms with what this means in terms of potential and practicality. This new world offers so much opportunity, […]
Originally published May 30, 2014 at 7:12 AM | Page modified May 31, 2014 at 3:13 AM
NEW YORK — The stock market closed out May mostly higher Friday, sending two out of the three major U.S. indexes to record highs.Trading was uneven, and indexes moved between small gains and losses for most of the day. A late push […]
The general consensus among most people who seriously study markets is that technical analysis is mostly garbage.
After all, how can a investing method that completely disregards a company’s fundamental business prospects in favor of tracking its stock price over time possibly ever get anything right except by chance?
In fact, the most wide-ranging study conducted to date […]
For months we have been warning about excessive optimism on the stock market, since it was clear that it needed a break. Coincidence or not, lately it has been seemingly impossible for the market to take it to the next level. Many indices are still listed near or at their all-time highs (e.g. the S&P 500), but sensitive sectors and […]
The general consensus among most people who seriously study markets is that technical analysis is mostly garbage. After all, how can a investing method that completely disregards a company’s fundamental business prospects in favor of tracking its stock price over time possibly ever get anything right except by chance? In fact, the most wide-ranging study conducted to date of technical […]
