Wedding of the year: Shahid Kapoor is finally married!The Bollywood star’s wedding is being termed the wedding of the yearEntertainment DeskSale of toy guns banned in PeshawarAdministration says police will be given the authority to arrest anyone carrying toy guns in the cityIftikhar FirdousK2 climbers try to master the art of cooking the perfect ‘chapati’Mike Horn and his group of […]
Getty Images/ Mike WindleKennedy Summers, Playboy’s 2014 ‘Playmate of the Year.’See AlsoThe SEC is hunting hackers who stole corporate emails to trade stocksORDERED CHAOS: An annotated guide to the bustling trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile ExchangeJimmy Lee was the greatest investment banker of our time, but that’s not what made him specialPlayboy’s 2014 “Playmate of the Year,” Kennedy Summers, […]
How to trade a skyrocketing stock
How do you trade jumping shares of Williams now? Todd Gordon discusses with Brian Sullivan.
Shares of Williams Cos. soared 26 percent on news that the energy company rejected a $64 per share takeover offer from Energy Transfer Equity.In a statement, Williams said the proposal “significantly undervalues Williams.”Williams further announced that it has retained Barclays and […]
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It was just a few weeks into the new school year when Connor Bruggemann decided to play sick. He holed up in his bedroom, shut the door, and opened his laptop. Over the summer his father had opened an Etrade account for him, using around $10,000 Bruggemann had saved up over two years working as a busboy and […]
Caveat: I like equity markets, as a family my father started investing in 1950s, I started investing in 1979, have enjoyed the process so far. I am completely indifferent to YOUR views on the market and whether you invest, hate, love or are obsessed with the market.Article:The equity markets are one of the most misunderstood markets and you have people […]
SURRY, Maine — Nicknamed “the Midnight Gunslinger,” he could shoot a rifle and hit a target 200 yards away, despite the fact that he could not see.On Tuesday morning, poor visibility apparently intervened to take the life of James Miekka, 54, when he was struck by a sport utility vehicle as he was walking along Route 176, known locally as […]
WW1 centenary: Stock Exchange to pause trading to remember fallen share pricesThe London Stock Exchange will observe a minute’s silence this week in commemoration of the share prices which fell during the First World War 100 years ago.‘We will take time this week to remember the value of the shares that were lost so that today’s markets could flourish,’ said […]
Readers Write: From Rice Fields to Big DataJuly 30, 2014Readers Write1 CommentFrom Rice Fields to Big DataBy Ping ZhangMy journey into technology was a long road. The first 15 years of my life were spent in the Hunan province in rural southern China. My family had no running water, and more often than not, we went to bed hungry.At five, […]
Benjamin Graham has served as the inspiration and intellectual mentor for generations of value investors.Many successful careers have been launched by a reading of the Intelligent Investor. Many others have perfected the art and science of investing by studying the classic editions of Security Analysis. Investors like Walter Schloss, Peter Cundill, Michael Price and of course Warren Buffett have found […]
George Dyson. Credit: edge.orgIf you read about Big Data for very long, a quote from science historian George Dyson is sure to come up: “Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away.”That will be a platform to talk about the challenges, etc.But there is a bigger problem that […]
