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US economy growing at 3.2% a year, fourth quarter figures show …

Over
to Greece where the country’s leading economic think tank, IOBE, has
not ruled out national output contracting for a seventh
straight year in 2014. Helena Smith in Athens writes:Releasing its quarterly review earlier today, IOBE was unequivocal: in 2014 the recession-hit Greek economy would finally bottom out, it said, but in sharp contrast to official forecasts it could not […]

Does High-Frequency Trading Change The Game? | Bankrate.com

As long as there have been markets, people have been driven by greed to make irrational investment decisions. When enough people get in on the action, valuations — the prices of securities — go haywire, soaring to obscene heights and then crashing in a shower of crushed dreams.Chasing performance, taking on excessive risk and selling at inopportune times are all […]

Big Data-Driven Credit And Loans Startup Kreditech Raises $15M In …

Established retail banks around the world have bit of a problem. There are a whole bunch of new banking players that want to disrupt parts of their business, such as Wonga, Lenddo, Kueski and many others. It’s like being eaten by piranhas. Now Kreditech is poised to be one of those players to really capitalise on this historic shift. Claiming […]

Stock Market Shock Dictates Continued Avoidance Of Passive Long …

When I first offered a warning to investors on New Year’s Eve, it was not plainly obvious what was about to happen. Today, pundits are pulling out every possible excuse for why stocks are getting trashed. It’s not at all because of Turkey or Argentina, but the fringes of risk, including emerging markets, are instead feeling it now because of […]

FE Investegate |Netcall PLC Announcements | Netcall PLC: Netcall …

RNS Number : 4401XNetcall PLC13 January 2014 ; ; ;13th ;January ;2014 ;NETCALL ;PLC ;(“Netcall”, ;the “Company”, ;or ;the “Group”) ;Netcall ;invests ;in ;Sentiment ;Adding ;Social ;Media ;monitoring ;and ;outreach ;to ;the ;Liberty ;platform ;Netcall plc (AIM: NET), a leading customer engagement software provider, is pleased to announce it has completed a joint investment with Elderstreet VCT in privately owned […]

Stock Market News for December 26, 2013 – Zacks Investment …

The holiday-shortened trading session on Tuesday saw the Dow and S&P 500 extending their record runs propelled by encouraging economic numbers. Higher orders for manufactured goods, encouraging new home sales and a report which revealed that corporates were investing at a rapid pace in their businesses acted as gifts on Christmas Eve. Volumes were among the lowest for the year […]

Robinhood App Will Offer Zero-Commission Stock Trades Thanks …

Why pay E*Trade or Scottrade $7 to trade a stock when you could do it for free? That premise helped mobile investment app startup Robinhood raise the $3 million seed round led by Index Ventures it announced today. With zero-commission trading it will launch next month, Robinhood is out to prove that young people do care about trading stocks — […]

Weekly Technical Analysis – “S&P500 1850 Remains The Target …

Its that time of the week for the usual Swiss team’s run through. The headline is they maintain that any near term weakness is corrective in nature and part of a year end push higher.This report is a bit thinner than usual but this fits with the theme of being patient for our year end Christmas present of a higher […]

The Stock Market Is At An All-Time High – Business Insider

Stocks are at all-time highs, and anyone invested in the market has reason to be happy.But that’s just it. It’s only the people who are investing who have gotten a piece of this 3.5-year-long bull market, which has seen the S&P 500 explode 170%According to Gallup’s annual Economics and Personal Finance survey, which was conducted in April, just 52% of […]

The Stock Market Is At An All-Time High — Here's … – Business Insider

Stocks are at all-time highs, and anyone invested in the market has reason to be happy.But that’s just it. It’s only the people who are investing who have gotten a piece of this 3.5-year-long bull market, which has seen the S&P 500 explode 170%According to Gallup’s annual Economics and Personal Finance survey, which was conducted in April, just 52% of […]