Bespoke Investment Group is out with an informative table showing the performance of stock markets in 75 countries, ranked by year-to-date performance. In pole position: Dubai, which has gained more than 50% on the year. Qatar, Argentina, and Bulgaria follow. In last place: Japan and Russia, which have both fallen more than 13%. You also may want to avoid Jamaican-listed […]
Mark Lennihan/APFA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.Why CAPE-Based Concerns About The Stock Market Miss The Point (The AllianceBernstein Blog)In a recent New York Times article titled “Time to Worry About Stock Market Bubbles,” Robert Shiller points out that based on his cyclically adjusted price earnings (CAPE) ratio, […]
Benchmarks retreated from record highs on Wednesday dragged down by declines in small-cap and Internet stocks. Also, selloffs in the consumer discretionary sector had a negative impact on benchmarks. The day’s economic reports were limited to U.S. wholesale prices, which reported an increase by 0.6% in April. Meanwhile, investors were focused on recent developments in Ukraine where pro-Russian rebels and […]
Big data places enormous demands on storage and in many cases conventional technologies are struggling to keep up.In an effort to deliver improved economics and at the same time enable organizations to access and process any type of data, on any type of storage device, anywhere in the world, IBM has unveiled a portfolio of software defined storage products.Codenamed “Elastic […]
Malaysia’s Exports Weighed Down By Weaker Demand From Major Trading Partners• According to data from the Statistics Department, Malaysia’s export growth slowed in March to an annualised 8.4 percent, lower than the 9.2 percent expected by economists in a Bloomberg survey. Imports also weakened considerably to a 0.5 percent growth from 9.5 percent in February and 7.2 percent in January.• […]
With ART Position trade system, we saw a blue arrow on Straco indicating a short term buying opportunity if tomorrow’s price break above prior day high. Overall the trend of this stock is in a smooth uptrend.
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Stock Market Reverses Off Decent Gap Down….Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 06, 2014 – 09:59 AM GMTBy: Jack_Steiman
A big gap down occurred today across the board. It looked like the bears finally had their gap down. All they had to do was hold this gap down and run lower all day. That would create a huge technical […]
By Andrew Crotty, Alex Galakatos, and Tim Kraska, Brown UniversityThe increasing prevalence of big data across all industries and sciences is causing a profound shift in the nature and scope of analytics. Increasingly complex computations, ranging from machine learning to predictive modeling, are fast becoming the norm. Users commonly express such tasks as a collection of user-defined functions (UDFs), preferably written in […]
IBM unveiled new Power Systems servers Wednesday, leveraging POWER8 technology for a new era of big data and open innovation. Through the OpenPOWER Foundation, IBM also released detailed technical specifications for its POWER8 processor, inviting collaborators and competitors alike to innovate on the processor and server platform.The new scale-out IBM Power Systems servers culminate a $2.4 billion investment, three-plus years of development and […]
Benchmarks finished hardly changed on Thursday as investors received mixed corporate results as well as encouraging economic data. Morgan Stanley, General Electric, Goldman Sachs and Pepsi reported upbeat quarterly results. However, the Dow closed in negative territory following IBM and UnitedHealth Group’s dismal earnings report. Google’s disappointing earnings also weighed on the markets. Positive economic data on […]
