With all the huge changes assaulting us every day — cloud and social computing services like Twitter, Facebook and Google+, mobile computing, cyber bullying, NSA spying and the erosion of privacy, etc. — for most people Big Data may seem like something for the data geeks. That is a mistake. Big Data sits at the center of all the technology-driven […]
While my background is as a long-only investor, I believe there are very few asymmetric opportunities for the risk-averse long investor in today’s market. While this is a negative, the upshot is that there is no shortage of exciting opportunities to short (massively) overvalued stocks. Today, I will profile three stocks which I believe are significantly mispriced and are likely […]
Twitter had their first quarterly earnings report after their IPO and came out with strong revenues of $243 mn for Q4, beating the analysts’ estimates of $218 mn.And yet the stock tanked on the markets and Twitter (TWTR) lost a quarter of their market cap or close to $10 bn in value, after the results were announced!What happened? What went […]
Investors overlooked weaker-than-expected nonfarm payroll additions to focus on economic strength in the report; helping benchmarks finish in the green on Friday. Unemployment rate dropped to a five-year low and construction sector showed strong gains. Encouraging earnings from Expedia also helped improve the mood. The two days of gains helped benchmarks rebound from losses to end with weekly gains; the […]
Stock Market Sell-Off Gives Us “Miracle Material” Bargain Of The YearStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 08, 2014 – 03:10 PM GMTBy: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: I was one of the first analysts to pronounce this as the “Golden Age of Materials Science.”You know what I’m talking about – all those “Miracle Materials” that […]
Favorable service sector data failed to add enough strength to the benchmarks yesterday as they suffered another round of losses. A choppy session saw the benchmarks open lower, followed by S&P 500 and Dow’s momentary halts in the green zone, after ultimately closing in the red. Separately, private employers were reported to have added lesser jobs than expected.The Dow Jones […]
Late January, Marathon Petroleum posted fourth-quarter net income of $2.10 a share and revenue of $24.93 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had anticipated earnings of $1.15 a share on $22.78 billion in revenue. “That’s a magnificent 95-cent beat,” Cramer said. “And the company’s gross margin soared to $15.69 per barrel, up huge from $9.25 per […]
Cloudera this week delivered on its October promise to provide a centralized enterprise analytics platform with a major portfolio overhaul that introduces three new offerings and support for the fast-growing Apache Spark project. Hailed as the next big thing in Big Data by SiliconANGLE founding CEO John Furrier, the framework executes queries up to 100 times faster than MapReduce and […]
Benchmarks were finally able to close in the green yesterday, helped by some encouraging corporate numbers. Gains from pharma major Pfizer also helped benchmarks notch up a rare win, which came a day after benchmarks had suffered their biggest losses since last June. Discretionary stocks led the gains for the S&P 500’s industry groups.For a look at the issues currently […]
The game is over, the Seattle Seahawks took home the Vince Lombardi Trophy with a final score of 43-8 against the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII.The Super Bowl is one of the biggest events in the US, so it’s not that surprising that the data uploaded and downloaded on Sunday surpassed numbers from previous years.According to AT&T, total data […]
