Sir Terry Leahy, the former chief executive of Tesco, is chaiman of B&M and a senior advisor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, the private equity firm that owns 60% of the chain. Photograph: Graham Turner for the GuardianB&M, a discount retailer set up in Blackpool with just £750 in 1978, is preparing for a stock market flotation that could value […]
Want to make money from a tree? You’ll probably need to cut it down. Live near a salmon or tuna fishery? Send out the boats and fishing nets for your livelihood.We know intuitively that there’s a value to managing wildlife, forests, water and other environmental resources more sustainably. But the trouble is that most economic assets don’t give individuals or […]
“While traditional data analysis tends to focus on data that has intrinsic, meaningful value, Big Data allows us to aggregate otherwise meaningless data and find insight in the group. By way of analogy, it probably won’t tell us much to observe the individual meanderings of an ant, but when observing the colony together, patterns emerge.”
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Stock Market Heading LowerStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jan 27, 2014 – 05:46 PM GMTBy: Gregor_Horvat
A sharp fall down to 1783 on Friday suggests that the S&P is heading lower now in wave 4. Wave 4 is a corrective leg so this can be only a temporary weakness but we still need three […]
(Editors’ Note: This article covers a stock trading at less than $1 per share and/or with less than a $100 million market cap. Please be aware of the risks associated with these stocks.)In ten years of solar investing, we have never encountered an opportunity as obscure and potentially lucrative as Renewable Energy Trade Board Corporation (OTCPK:EBODF).Before walking through the long […]
The shares of Lodon Stock Exchange Group (LSE: LSE) added 27p to 1,881p this morning after it reported a strong third quarter, with total income up nearly 50%.The group, which delivers trading systems among its principle activities, saw total revenue climb to £272 million in the months ended 31 December.Future outlook is simarly positive with revenues in capital markets rising […]
Benchmarks ended mostly lower yesterday, dragged down by weak corporate earnings results. A drop in the initial claims numbers failed to lift benchmarks to the green and the S&P 500 had to retreat from an all-time high. The index returned to the red zone considering the year-to-date period. Financials were among the biggest decliners, dragged by weak results from behemoths […]
Cameco Corp., Finning International Inc. and Primero Mining Corp. made the cut among seven Canadian names on Cantor Fitzgerald’s 36 best global ideas for 2014.Also included were AG Growth International Inc., Catamaran Corp., Descartes Systems Group Inc. and Halogen Software Inc..Some of the other companies on the investment bank’s list include U.S.-listed Facebook Inc., Expedia Inc. and Digital Realty Trust, […]
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 […]
