Trade GBP on Rising Channel Bounce – July 24, 2014By Forexminute – Samuel Rae | Technical Analysis Reports | Jul 24, 2014 5:22AM BSTGBP/AUD has been in a steady uptrend, as indicated by the ascending trend channel on its 4-hour forex time frame. Price to trade GBP is moving close to the bottom of the channel, which lines up with […]
Last week I wrote a post criticizing Fed chair Janet Yellen for apparently becoming a “stock picker“. Later in the week when she spoke before the US House Financial Services Committee in Washington she seemed to tone down a bit her “stock picking” comments, but she nonetheless commented on the general valuation of the US stock market.I am still critical […]
EconomyThe black boxes of downed flight MH17 have been handed over to Malaysian experts by separatist leader Aleksander Borodai. The transfer came after pressure was put on Ukrainian rebels and Russia to provide safe and unrestricted access to the crash site. EU foreign ministers will discuss another round of sanctions against Russia today as the country continues to violate Ukraine’s […]
I like to think of myself as open-minded, I try to not to let my pre-existing biases get in the way of learning new things and new ideas. But I also like to think of myself as a skeptic – unless someone can show evidence or proof that an idea is correct, I’ll have a hard time accepting it.So when […]
Benchmarks dropped the most in three weeks on Wednesday after World Bank lowered projections for global economic growth. The Dow snapped a four-day rally of record high closes. The blue-chip index also closed 157 points away from its key technical level of 17,000. The Nasdaq also ended a five-session winning streak. The S&P 500 recorded its biggest one day percentage […]
About TEDx, x = Independently Organized Event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = […]
Stock Market Dow Trend Forecast Summer 2014 By Nadeem WalayatStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 05, 2014 – 12:02 PM GMTBy: Nadeem_Walayat
No ‘Sell in May and Go Away’ this year for Either Bulls or BearsWatching the disconnect between stock prices and what passes for stock market commentary since my last detailed look at the stock market of early […]
Text Posts Alone Are Seven Times More Likely to Show Negative Sentiment than PicturesSAN FRANCISCO – June 5, 2014 – Chute, a visual-marketing company, which helps brands discover and publish consumer photos and videos, has released results from a study showing how consumer sentiment differs by social media format. The study, which examined almost 6,000 posts and tweets about 30 leading […]
Netflix has more than 48 million subscribers, and it knows a ton about all of them: What they watch, when they watch, when they stop watching.Netflix uses all of that data to help it pick and fund shows, like “House of Cards”, and to help promote different shows to different people. But it insists that it won’t use all of […]
Big data and the growth of services that help us make sense of it are some of the more fascinating developments of our connected world, but in some cases they can be also some of the more scary, with companies collecting billions of data points that speak to every aspect of what we do online. Today, a report published by the Federal Trade Commission […]
