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Article Synopsis: Listening In on Social Media: A Joint Model of …

By David A. Schweidel and Wendy W. MoeJournal of Marketing ResearchPublished online June 19, 2014Does brand sentiment vary by social media platform? According to research by David Scweidel and Wendy Moe, the answer appears to be yes. The authors discuss the results of their 2014 study, in which they modeled previous data collected from different social media venues (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, […]

Stock Market News for June 18, 2014 – Zacks Investment Research

Gains in financial and small-cap stocks helped benchmarks shrug off initial losses to end in the green. Stocks had opened in the red owing to dismal housing data. However, improved consumer price data firmed up the US dollar, also leading to expectations of a rate hike. Markets secured their third-straight positive finish on a day when the two-day FOMC […]

Inflating the Stock Market – When Trillions of Dollars Chase Fewer …

What happens when more money chases fewer goods? Prices inflate. Although many understand this principle when it comes to goods or services, it also applies equally as well to the stock market.In a recent interview with Financial Sense Newshour (click here for audio), Craig Johnson at Piper Jaffray explains how there’s far less stocks available to buy in the market […]

Stock Market News for June 04, 2014 – June 4, 2014 – Zacks.com

Benchmarks finished Tuesday’s session with meager losses as investors awaited the outcome of Thursday’s ECB meeting and the monthly US jobs report on Friday. Encouraging reports on factory orders and upbeat monthly car sales numbers failed to boost investor sentiment. Tuesday’s losses caused the S&P 500 and the Dow to retreat from their previous day’s record highs, while the Nasdaq […]

Dow, S&P close out May at record highs | Stock market | The Seattle …

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 […]

Big Data, Socio-Psychological Theory, Algorithmic Text Analysis and …

Big Data, Socio-Psychological Theory, Algorithmic Text Analysis and Predicting the Michigan Consumer Sentiment IndexIn Uncategorized on May 27, 2014 at 5:45 pm by Jorge LouçãSee on Scoop.it – Non-Equilibrium Social ScienceWe describe an exercise of using Big Data to predict the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, a widely used indicator of the state of confidence in the US economy. We carry […]

USD Outlook (5/26 – 5/30) – Technical Analysis and Fundamental …

Technical Analysis:The USD has been strong for the most part in May. The USD Index (DXY) has been sideways to bearish for most of 2014, falling to a low on the year at 78.90 in early May. It has since rebounded, and closed the previous week at 80.35.DXY DailyThe daily chart of the DXY shows a revival of USD-strength. It […]

Stock Market News for May 22, 2014 – Zacks Investment Research

Benchmarks ended higher on Wednesday boosted primarily by the encouraging minutes from the FOMC meeting. Fed officials discussed monetary tightening while remaining flexible on such a measure. They also discussed approaches to hiking rates, but clarified this was not an indication that rates would be hiked immediately. Meanwhile, gains from consumer discretionary and energy stocks also helped benchmarks finish in […]