There have been claims about the market being rigged for institutions and against individual investors for years, but they have become much louder since the release of Michael Lewis’s best-selling book “Flash Boys,” which details how high-frequency traders have wormed their way into the market, developing an information edge that gives them a window of milliseconds where they can front-run […]
SummaryA new paper by Claude Erb notes that over time the beta, size and value premiums have all declined.
The paper questions whether or not the trades are too crowded with investors demanding too much from a limited supply.
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Cosmetics company Estée Lauder (NYSE:EL) made for some mighty impressive trading collars on Friday. Shares surged 4.75% to end at an historic high – no mean feat in a week when its arch-rival Avon Products (NYSE:AVP) imploded. The firm, whose myriad other brands include Aramis, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, Bumble and bumble, Clinique, Flirt!, Origins, and Smashbox, boosted its profit outlook. Today, however, its excessive subsequent […]
Benchmarks finished Thursday’s choppy run mostly lower as investors took a cautious approach ahead of Friday’s nonfarm payroll report. While the day’s mixed economic reports had some negative impact on the S&P 500 and the Dow, the Nasdaq ended in positive territory due to gains in Internet stocks.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to […]
APRIL 29, 2014Big Data in Biomedicine conference set for May 21-23 at StanfordBY RUTHANN RICHTERRelated News » Li Ka Shing Foundation gives $3 million to Stanford for ‘big data’ initiative
» Scientists consider potential of abundant biomedical data
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On Friday, in the Western Massachusetts town of Holyoke, Governor Deval Patrick and officials from industry, government and academia joined together for the official launch of a $3 million capital investment, known as the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project. The public-private initiative will establish a new cloud computing infrastructure to serve as a virtual laboratory for big data researchers and […]
BigCHat: KDD 2014 Workshop on Connected Health at Big Data Era
August 24, 2014
New York, NY, USA
https://tinyurl.com/bigchat2014
Key Dates
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Paper Submission Due: June 23, Monday, 11:59PM PST
Acceptance Notification: July 8
Camera Ready Due: July 31
Workshop Date: August 24
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Submission
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Manuscripts should be in English and must not exceed 8 pages using the standard ACM format found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates in PDF format. Papers should be submitted from […]
Paul Waddell, a city planning professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with a penchant for conducting research with what he calls his “big urban data,” is putting his work to a real-world test in San Francisco.
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As a trader you often find yourself with a lot of desire to trade but very little time to do it — because of life’s everyday activities.
A simple way that lets you trade with very little time is to trade Nadex binaries. This is not only possible but very easy to execute anytime, day or night. If you focus on the […]
Photo: David Mantel/Getty ImagesWatching the Woods: A new mapping tool uses satellite imagery to keep an eye on the world’s forests from above.
When a tree falls in the forest these days, it doesn’t just make a sound—it causes a computer program to generate an alert that’s sent out to activists, researchers, and environmental policymakers around the planet. An online tool […]
