UK-based Tesco, the world’s second-largest retailer after Walmart, has made a killing in its sector by jumping early into the use of big data, collected via loyalty cards as well as through stores and online, to figure out what its customers wanted to buy. Today, Dunnhumby, the data science group that helped Tesco with that effort, which Tesco eventually acquired, is making an acquisition of […]
Chris Hondros / Getty ImagesFA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.Value Stocks May Be Coming Into Favor (BlackRock)The high-growth momentum stocks have recently taken a beating. Biotech stocks are down 15% from their February peak and the recent King Digital Entertainment IPO was a flop, with the stock […]
Investor Marc Andreessen tweeted an eight-step plan on how to destroy the public stock market.According to Andreessen, increased regulation discourages companies from going public. He points out that the number of publicly traded companies already naturally decreases because of takeovers, mergers, and bankruptcies.We’ve included the Tweets below: Disclosure: Marc Andreessen is an investor in Business Insider.
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With his new book, Michael Lewis is trying to completely change the conversation about high frequency trading on Wall Street. Up until now it’s been about whether or not high speed firms even have an advantage that distorts the market and hurts other investors.After enough people have read ‘Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt’, however, it may evolve into an […]
REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.We’re Far From Euphoria (MarketMinder) Stocks had a record year in 2013, with the S&P 500 returning 30%. Now many wonder if the market looks frothy and if we’re overdue for a correction. “It’s been a long time since […]
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Interesting bit from Slate (via Business
Insider) from last week tracing
the shockingly good record of Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) employees when it comes to making trades at the
right time in stocks of companies the SEC investigates.Turns out reseachers found “SEC employees tend to sell a
company’s stock before the SEC takes enforcement action against the
company” leading to:
abnormal returns of about 4 percent for […]
Business Insider/Matthew Boesler (data from E*TRADE)The stock market crash of 2008 has for many years caused an aversion to stocks among retail investors, but they may finally be coming back after a 188% run-up from the March 2009 lows.
Daily average revenue trades (DARTs) at leading online brokerage E*TRADE have been trending up since bottoming out in mid-2012, but in January, […]
Welcome to our daily roundup of top insider trades. Here’s a look at the most significant inside purchases recently filed with the SEC.Notable Purchases:
The global health-care group GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) bought 342,229 shares of biopharmaceutical company Theravance (NASDAQ:THRX) for $12,850,699.
The Japanese trading company Marubeni (OTCMKTS:MARUY) bought 60,000 shares of high-utility commercial jet aircraft company Aircastle (NYSE:AYR) for $1,100,166.
Nancy Schoendorf, a director […]
Bitcoin Center NYCAllan Stevo shouts out Bitcoin orders from a makeshift stand at the Bitcoin Center NYC.The floor of the New York Stock Exchange has been pretty quiet for years now, most of the trades having moved onto servers in New Jersey. If you want real pit action, you need not travel very far: One block up Broad Street […]
