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Only 2% Indians trade in stocks, these ex-hedge fund managers …

Only 2% of Indians trade in stocks, these ex-hedge fund managers want to change the scene
“Only two per cent of Indians trade in stocks and this includes mutual funds. It’s ridiculous!” exclaim, Raghu Kumar, Co-founder of RKSV. Having grown up in the US, where close to 40 per cent of the population trades in stocks, Raghu and his brother Ravi […]

Why The Stock Market Casino Is Dangerous: The Case Of Looney …

On August 4th the Wall Street Journal carried a breathless tale of how a handful of obscure oilfield suppliers were striking immense riches in the sand dunes of Wisconsin. Owing to the “shale revolution”, the stock price of an outfit that had originated in the  stagnating business of supplying sand traps to golf courses, and which had been at death’s door as […]

Wall St. flat after Japan, China data; biotechs climb

U.S. stocks were little changed on Monday, as investors weighed the strength of the U.S. economy against global growth concerns following soft data out of China and Japan, while biotechs rose on merger activity.Major indexes opened slightly lower after data showed China’s exports grew at a slower-than-expected pace and imports dropped 6.7 percent in November, while Japan’s economy shrank more […]

Investing In Oil Refinery Stocks: Trading The Spread – Seeking Alpha

There’s always a bull market in energy-you just have to know which sub-sector to buy. So where do my subscribers and I make money right now? You might be surprised by the answer, but first some context…In Q3 2103, oil producers in North America were the place to be, as higher international oil prices (Brent) dragged the North American price […]

SENTIRE 2014 : 4th edition of Sentiment Elicitation from Natural …

Apologies for cross-posting,
Submissions are invited for the 4th edition of Sentiment Elicitation from
Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE), the IEEE ICDM
workshop series on opinion mining. The term SENTIRE comes from the Latin feel
and it is root of words such as sentiment and sensation. SENTIRE aims to provide
an international forum for researchers in the field of opinion mining and
sentiment […]