Stocks are expected to end this year only modestly higher after last year’s 30% gains, prompting investors to hunt for growth. One way to find it is by learning how to trade penny stocks. Defined as stocks that trade under $5 a share, penny stocks have gotten a bad rap thanks to scams and […]
Big Data News: Splice Machine, Carpathia, Altiscale, DataGravity
February 11th, 2014
By: John Rath
Splice Machine raises $15 million to further its transactional real-time SQL-on-Hadoop database for big data applications, Carpathia and Altiscale partner for Hadoop-as-a-Service, and DataGravity is recruiting channel partners for its early-access program to take advantage of its product release later this year.
Splice Machine raises $15 million for big […]
Investors refrained from placing big bets on Monday ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s first testimony before lawmakers. As a result, benchmarks closed almost at the same levels at which they opened the trading session. A lackluster quiet trading session saw hardly any action on the economic front. No major economic reports which could influence benchmarks were released.For a […]
NEW YORK The stock market ended up more or less where it began Monday in a quiet day for investors who had little economic data or company earnings to react to.Analysts said the market is likely to remain in a holding pattern until traders hear from Janet Yellen in her first testimony before […]
Are stock market investors setting themselves up for a record-breaking fall? Here’s one big warning sign for investors to consider.The New York Stock Exchange recently updated its stock market margin-debt data, showing that Main Street and Wall Street are still continuing to dump billions in borrowed dollars into the stock market.http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/08/stock-marke…
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Stock Market Warning Signs: Record $444.9 Billion of […]
A drop in initial claims and encouraging results from Disney helped benchmarks achieve their best single-day performance since Dec 18. The gains somewhat offset weekly losses and Friday’s session will be crucial to help benchmarks post a rare weekly gain. Consumer discretionary sector was the best performer for the day among the S&P industry groups.For a look at the issues […]
Brokers balked at a stock exchange study that could lead to the introduction of circuit breakers to protect against flash trading of stocks – which can send shares gyrating wildly – saying Hong Kong has adequate suspension rules in place already.Securities and Futures Commission executive director Keith Lui told the South China Morning Post last week that the SFC supports […]
Bitcoin Center NYCAllan Stevo shouts out Bitcoin orders from a makeshift stand at the Bitcoin Center NYC.The floor of the New York Stock Exchange has been pretty quiet for years now, most of the trades having moved onto servers in New Jersey. If you want real pit action, you need not travel very far: One block up Broad Street […]
Bond Market Signals Worse Than Orderly Stock Market Sell-Off
By Jon C. Ogg February 3, 2014 4:38 pm EST
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Goldman Sachs and other investment firms warned that the market was getting more and more at risk of a 10% stock market correction, with the caveat that stocks would resume the bull market thereafter. Now we have the bond market signaling that things […]
Dismal earnings results and weak forecasts weighed heavily on the benchmarks once again, dragging them down on Friday. Markets finished in the red to post their worst monthly performance in over a year. It was also the benchmarks’ first monthly decline since last August. Energy and consumer discretionary sectors were among the biggest losers on Friday.For a look at the […]
