British stock market got talentsComing to the end of 2014 and it has been an exciting year in terms of investment. US stock market is still in bull cycle. Russia Ruble has finally rebounded after depreciated by 40% against the USD since July. China cut 1 year benchmark borrowing rate from 6% to 5.6% to simulate the slowing economy. Japan […]
The S&P 500 was up 0.5 percent to 2,063 for the week, and is now up nearly 11 percent from its October lows. The S&P also had its best five-week winning streak since April 2009, and some analysts say its recent gains may take some of the steam out of a potential late December rally.”We beat the Christmas rush and […]
WW1 centenary: Stock Exchange to pause trading to remember fallen share pricesThe London Stock Exchange will observe a minute’s silence this week in commemoration of the share prices which fell during the First World War 100 years ago.‘We will take time this week to remember the value of the shares that were lost so that today’s markets could flourish,’ said […]
Stock Market Bubble WarningStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jul 29, 2014 – 10:38 AM GMTBy: Barry_M_FergusonEveryone has an opinion as to whether or not US stock indices are in a bubble at the present (July, 2014). Given a moment’s reflection, I came up with ten reasons US stocks are indeed in a bubble.1) Fed Chair Yellen expressed concern in mid-July (2014) […]
Twitter’s Richard Costolo, Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone await the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on day of the firm’s IPO in November. Photograph: Lan/CorbisTwitter shares fell more than 10% as Wall Street opened for business on Tuesday, marking the end of the lockup period that prevented executives, early investors and other insiders selling […]
In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. They explained how Google’s algorithm mined five years of web logs, containing hundreds of billions of searches, and created a predictive model utilizing 45 search […]
A former kitchen salesman made £86m selling part of an online white goods company he started for a bet in Bolton pub on Christmas Eve 14 years ago – and he still has a stake worth more than £440m.John Roberts, 40, was moaning to a friend that he wanted to quit his job as a salesman at Moben Kitchens and […]
Stock Market Investors Get Out Now! No New Paradigm!Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jan 05, 2014 – 03:05 PM GMTBy: Clive_Maund
Welcome to the New Year, and to the “New Paradigm”, where stocks go up in perpetuity because, well, because they’re going up, and because the Fed stands behind the market likes a towering Father Christmas ready […]
NEW YORK – The stock market closed out a record year with more all-time highs on Tuesday, giving U.S. indexes their biggest annual gains in almost two decades.The Standard & Poor’s 500 index notched its best year since 1997; The Dow Jones industrial average rose the most since 1995.While trading was light on the last day of the year, […]
The Vikings end the Metrodome era with a win over a Lions team that was even more disappointing than the Vikings this year.So the 2013 season and the Metrodome era come to a simultaneous end. The Vikings beat the Lions 14-13, and we now move outside for two years before we get to move into our new home, sweet […]
