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TraderFeed: The U.S. Stock Market is Hostage to Macro Themes

Has the U.S. stock market been strong or weak so far in 2015? As the above three charts from the excellent FinViz site indicate, the answer very much depends on the segment of the market you’ve been following and trading.With respect to stock sectors, consumer discretionary and healthcare shares have performed well. Note the strength in housing stocks (XHB) and […]

April 1, 2015 ByBrett Steenbarger Ph.D. concerns, economic, europe, further-reading, global, japan, shares, stocks, XHB Comments Off read more

How AIR wants to use big-data on our children

How AIR wants to use big-data on our children
Published July 28, 2014 | By JaKell Sullivan
http://www.air.org/resource/long-story-short-how-are-rules-using-big-data-changingWatch this video of Julia Lane, Institute Fellow at American Institutes for Research (AIR)—Utah’s testing agent for SAGE tests. The following are excerpts of some of her quotes, with my translations:“It’s impossible to get informed consent about collecting big-data.”… (TRANSLATION-”We can’t wait for you, the […]

July 28, 2014 ByJaKell Sullivan AIR, children, concerns, education, federal, institute, king, natural, private, published, research, sage Comments Off read more