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Wall Street falls; European shares rise on optimism over Greece | Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street shares fell on Monday, dragged lower by biotech and healthcare stocks, while European shares and the euro advanced on optimism over talks between Greece and its lenders after Greece reshuffled its negotiating team.The Nasdaq Biotech Index .NBI and the S&P Healthcare index .SPXHC posted their biggest daily percentage losses in about a month, after […]

What The Wall Street Journal Missed

If you’re nervous about investing in biotech stocks, you’re not alone.Biotech stocks can be scary. They are based on a lot of hope and promise, and they do appear to traditional investors to have gone too far too fast.In October 2013, The Wall Street Journal ran a story saying that biotech stocks might be too overpriced.Here’s the second paragraph of the […]

Top Medical Marijuana Stock

Headquartered in Salsbury, United Kingdom, GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:GWPH) uses its proprietary cannabinoid product platform to create and develop new therapeutics that can be used for a variety of treatments. The company’s therapeutics, along with current and proposed treatments, include:· Sativex® for treating chronic cancer pain and multiple sclerosis spasticity· Epidiolix® for the treatment of childhood epilepsy, Dravet syndrome, and Lennox-Gastaut […]

How Big Data & Analytics Hatched New Insights for BC Egg …

Anne-Marie Butler, Director of Finance and Administration with the BC Egg Marketing BoardBy Anne-Marie ButlerEggs, the classic, must-have ingredient for every kitchen, are a staple in our daily diets. And while it is a known fact that happy chickens lay more eggs, happy egg producers are able to track more of their production by using Big Data.The BC Egg Marketing […]

Businesses and the Big Data Skills Shortage | Data Center Knowledge

RICK DELGADORick Delgado is an enterprise tech commentator and writer.Although Big Data is no longer a foreign concept to businesses they still face significant challenges when implementing it into their organizations. And the problem doesn’t stem from understanding its importance. Rather, it lies in finding the right people for the job.Addressing the shortageThere are many reasons the Big Data skills […]

Richard Reeves: Catching Up With Big Data – Truthdig

ShutterstockThis is a column about “Big Data” and a new way to predict the results of presidential elections for the next 20 years.We begin with the rise of Nate Silver, the former baseball statistician retained by The New York Times, and his blog, “FiveThirtyEight,” which accurately predicted the results of the 2008 vote in 49 of the 50 states. He […]

Alasdair Macleod: Technical analysis vs. value in gold | Gold Anti …

11:30a ET Friday, May 16, 2014Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod today contrasts technical analysis of financial markets with value analysis and sides with the latter. Of course neither are very good in a market that is as comprehensively manipulated by central bank intervention as the gold market is –http://www.gata.org/taxonomy/term/21– but as happened with the collapse […]