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Cramer's biotech bonanza: A zone free from oil pain

Cramer: Celgene has phenomenal pipeline
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer highlights winning biotech names out of the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting.
As the market licks its wounds from the hideous decline in oil prices, Jim Cramer would like to remind investors that there is one leg of the industry that has no economic sensitivity whatsoever to the price of oil: biotechs. […]

Exclusive: Citigroup To Shutter Lavaflow Stock Trading Venue …

REUTERS/Brendan McDermid12:37 PM 12/02/14By John McCrankNEW YORK (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc is shutting down its alternative stock trading venue LavaFlow, the bank said on Tuesday, at a time when regulatory scrutiny has increased around broker-run trading platforms, forcing banks to rethink the costs.Critics say the alternative stock trading venues add to the fragmentation of the market, increasing complexity and costs […]

Warren Buffett’s Investment Secret: Stick to What You Know

“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” — Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett is considered one of the greatest investors in modern history. He started out as a young financial analyst in the 50s and now has accumulated a fortune worth over $60 billion. When asked […]

Big Data Is Changing Insurance | SmartData Collective

If you’re a young, male driver, or you have one in your family, you are no doubt aware of the astronomical price of car insurance.This is obviously because drivers in this category are involved in a higher number of accidents, so it seems fair that they pay more to be on the road, right?But what about those young, male drivers […]

Q&A With Dr. Jan de Jeu, Finding Common Ground in Big Data « A …

Dr. Jan de Jeu, vice president of the University of GroningenA few weeks ago IBM, ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, and the University of Groningen (UoG) formed the European Research Center for Exascale Technology (ERCET) to address some of the greatest societal challenges facing The Netherlands today including energy, healthcare and water management.One of the orchestrators of the […]

Will the worlds of Hadoop and Big Data combine or collide …

Will the worlds of Hadoop and Big Data combine or collide? | #HPBigData2014 Valentina Craft | August 12thREAD MOREIs there going to be a war on database formats, and will the worlds of Hadoop and Big Data combine or collide in the enterprise?  These questions were raised just before Janath Manohararaj took the stage at SiliconANGLE’s roving news desk theCUBE, as […]

3 Big Myths About Big Data | Laddering Works

With all the current hype, be careful not to fall for any of these Big Data myths.Much of the conversation about Big Data surrounds the topic of its actual collection, but unless both your internal and external users can easily consume data, it is worthless.I was talking with Michel Guillet of Juice Analytics, a provider of products and services that make […]

Adatao Emerges With $13M In Funding And Visions Of Changing …

Big data has emerged as a big trend over the last several years, but as an area it has remained ill-defined and focused for the most part on data scientists, while ignoring business users. Adatao wants to change that by offering a solution that has something for both parties and a collaboration environment that lets them work together in one tool -and […]

Big Data in the Pharma R&D Landscape – Pharma Exec Blog

Big Data and the mindset that comes with it will have a fundamental impact on how pharmaceutical research will be conducted in the future, writes Peter Tormay.Innovation is the corner stone of the pharmaceutical industry. Unfortunately, the industry as a whole is not very good at it. For the last two decades the approval of NME’s has been largely flat […]

The best trade in red-hot solar stocks: Josh Brown – CNBC.com

The best way to play red-hot solar stocks
Josh Brown explains his move in his Playbook Playoffs portfolio, selling one ETF and trading it for a solar stock.
The best way to play red-hot solar stocks is to zero in on U.S.-based companies, said Josh Brown, author of “The Reformed Broker” blog and financial advisor at Ritholtz Wealth Management.”New tariffs that went […]