At the end of April, Kaspersky reported an ITW exploit that was abusing an Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability at the time (CVE-2014-0515). The vulnerability was known to be inside the Pixel Bender parser in Adobe Flash Player. I had time to look deeper into how the vulnerability works and how control of the code is acquired using this vulnerability.Figure […]
In fact, although it is commonly stated that stocks never lose money over a long enough period, these periods might be longer lived than we are. Don’t forget that our Grandfather that bought stocks in 1929 was not clearly out of the red until 1989. That’s right – if he really did buy and hold his shares, he would have […]
Stock Market Critical WeekStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 05, 2014 – 03:06 PM GMTBy: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the MarketSPX: Very Long-term trend – The very-long-term cycles are in their down phases, and if they make their lows when expected (after this bull market is over), there will be another steep decline into late 2014. However, […]
By Joy Arulraj, Justin Debrabant, Andrew Pavlo, Michael Stonebraker, Stan Zdonik, and Subramanya DulloorIn this joint collaboration between Brown, CMU, MIT CSAIL and Intel Labs, we explore two possible use cases of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) DBMSs.Evaluation of software systems using NVM is challenging due to lack of hardware. In this study, we use a NVM hardware emulator developed by Intel Labs that uses special CPU […]
The social media site Twitter Inc (TWTR) has struggled to attract new users – but mobile platforms could offer a brighter futureIt has been an up and down time for Twitter Inc (TWTR) lately, and today’s stock market performance merely exemplified this. The social media site initially rallied 3 percent on city trading during the last 24 hours, but since […]
Credit SuisseThe makeup of the global economy has evolved dramatically in the past century.
The stock market has changed too.From Credit Suisse’s Global Investment Returns Yearbook::Figure 1 shows the relative market capitalizations of world equity markets at our base date of end-1899. Figure 2 shows how they had changed by end-2013. Markets that are not included in the Yearbook dataset are […]
Stock Market Struggles to Bounce Amidst Record LeverageStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 10, 2014 – 08:05 PM GMTBy: EWI
Many Are Betting on a Calm Stock Market. We’re Not. Here’s one […]
One problem with stock market rallies that are characterized by steep and uninterrupted ascents, such as the one experienced during 2013, is that once a sell-off commences it becomes difficult to pinpoint price levels at which the declines in broad equity indices such as the S&P 500 (SPY) may run their course.In this article, I will briefly review the factors […]
Robert Prechter’s The Next Big Drop Stock Market Warning Stock-Markets / Financial CrashJan 26, 2014 – 04:49 PM GMTBy: EWI
On January 24, the DJIA, S&P and NASDAQ all lost […]
Here and there a book becomes canonical. It is extolled as a “bible,” the standard work in its field. Such is the case with Martin Pring’s hefty, 800-page Technical Analysis Explained: The Successful Investor’s Guide to Spotting Investment Trends and Turning Points, now in its updated and substantially revised fifth edition (McGraw-Hill, 2014).Pring’s book is divided into three parts: trend-determining […]
