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The dangers of a stock market melt-up – CNBC.com

“The bull market would be more sustainable if investors fretted about all sorts of possible bearish problems,” he said. The economy isn’t all that strong, for example, and it might be much weaker if the Federal Reserve were not holding interest rates artificially low and buying bonds at a relentless pace. The Fed decided on Wednesday to continue […]

Intro To Big Data Companies: Big Returns, Big Risks [General …

One of the hottest areas of information technology right now is the field of “Big Data”, and closely related “Business Intelligence”. While these concepts don’t get anywhere near as much discussion as some other emerging industries, say 3D Printing (see my article on 3D Printing stocks here) or Medical Marijuana (See my article here), Big Data and Business Intelligence are […]

Visualizes Social Sentiment Coming to Enterprises in Real-time …

It’s surely a sign of APIs growing up when enterprise vendors are building tools to utilize them. Business management solutions company SAP AG has a new solution that helps businesses and organizations gain insights into market trends and customer sentiment in real-time. The “SAP Rapid-Deployment Solution for Sentiment Intelligence with SAP HANA” loads text data from any Web Channel that […]

FACT SHEET: The STOCK Act: Bans Members of Congress from …

The White HouseOffice of the Press SecretaryFor Immediate ReleaseApril 04, 2012FACT SHEET: The STOCK Act: Bans Members of Congress from Insider Trading“Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress; I will sign it tomorrow.” — President Obama, State of the Union, January 24, 2012In the State of the Union Address, the President laid out a blueprint […]