One part of the market has held on, another part seems to be falling apart.
Over the last month or so the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrials have essentially moved sideways, but the Nasdaq and Russell 2000 have clearly trended lower.
Tech stocks, and specifically biotech stocks, have really taken a beating. However, there has been a slight recovery over the […]
The European Technology Platform for Software and Services NESSI, together with partners from the FP7 project Big, has drafted a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) on Big Data Value for Europe. The objective of the SRIA is to describe the main research challenges and needs for advancing Big Data Value in Europe in the next 5 to 10 years.
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For the first time in quite some time we got yet more dovish words from the ECB and hawkish, no action again. Yet, this time, rather than the euro rallying the lack of action did not price support the euro. This is interesting and possibly meaningful price action.“QE was discussed” was about as dovish as the language got as inflation […]
Ahead of next week’s #SMWF Europe we speak to Luke Moore, European sales director at Crimson Hexagon to find out about how the company is helping businesses learn more from social media conversations. Social media has long been referred to as the world’s biggest focus group and its potential for learning more about the customer has always been huge. In fact […]
Moscow ExchangeAll eyes continue to be on Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea.
The world awaits Sunday’s referendum in Crimea where voters will be ask whether they want to join.Meanwhile, Russia’s MICEX index continues its slide, fall 2% today. At it’s lowest point today, it was down 5.2%. Year-to-date, it’s down 20.4%.Most experts seem to agree that the referendum is illegal as it […]
Some asset managers have decided to increase electronic trade and subsequently reduce the number of brokers they use. Photograph: Alex Domanski/ReutersEuropean equity investors placed more orders via computers than through flesh-and-blood traders for the first time last year, as new market rules drive more money managers to go high-tech and low-cost. Widespread regulatory changes designed to make trading safer, more […]
Many people believe that Forex and stock trading is the same thing which gives them a lot of preconceived ideas and leads to a lot of surprises, especially if they are going to try their luck in one of these markets. Although they have a few similarities and might look like the same market for an outsider, once you start […]
Negative news from Asia got stocks off on the wrong foot on Monday to start the week. A late rally in the last hour of trading fell just short of lifting any of the major U.S. averages into positive territory, with both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ ending the day down less than 0.1% after having been lower by 0.5% […]
What’s got Inhi Cho Suh’s attention? Real-time and context computing. Big Data is about enabling everyone. It’s about the democratization of data, giving all the ability to insights and not require you to have a Ph.D or to be a data scientist just to understand the data.This week at IBM Pulse 2014, VP GM Big Data & Integration Inhi Cho […]
Let’s see a show of hands. How many of you out there struggle from time to time to ascertain why Ms. Market is doing whatever the heck she is doing on a given day?
Monday was a perfect example of why the word logic is rarely used in connection with the action in the stock market. In short, anyone perusing the […]
