European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next?
By Michael Snyder, on July 7th, 2015A global stock market crash has begun. European stocks are crashing, Chinese stocks are crashing, and commodities are crashing. And guess what? All of those things happened before U.S. stocks crashed in the fall of 2008 too. In so many […]
Market strategist says: ‘This could probably be our worst day in two or three years.’ Photograph: Paul Miller/AAP
More than $35bn was wiped off the Australian stock market in the first hour of trading on Monday as investors brace for an increasingly likely Greek exit from the euro zone.Both the S&P/ASX 200 and All Ordinaries quickly fell about 2%.“Unfortunately this could […]
Wall Street on Friday closed higher for the first time in a week, lifted by rising tech stocks, while oil prices slumped 5 percent on receding fears about Middle East fighting disrupting supplies.U.S. Treasury debt prices jumped on government data indicating U.S. economic growth was slowing and the dollar was down, while gold had its first losing day after a […]
LONDON (MarketWatch) — Were you too skeptical to follow the Europe bulls and pile into the region’s stock markets early in the year? But worried now it is too late to make stellar returns out of the once unloved region?The good news is that you can still comfortably take a seat on the European equity train, and let the European […]
With Apple at record highs, its market capitalization is now bigger than Russia’s entire stock market (the 20th largest market in the world). What’s more, as Bloomberg notes, there would be enough money left over after selling Apple and buying Russia to purchase over 190 million contract-free 64Gb iPhone6 Pluses (enough for every Russian).As Bloomberg adds,
If you owned Apple Inc., […]
Dina Spector
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The Crepes of Wrath
European markets are basically flat early Wednesday.
Here’s the scorecard:France’s CAC 40 is down 0.1%.Germany’s DAX is down 0.1%.Spain’s IBEX is up 0.2%Italy’s FTSE MIB is flat.Britain’s FTSE 100 is flat.Asian markets closed flat, with Nikkei’s 225 closing up just 0.09%.U.S. futures are up a hair, with Dow futures up 9 points and […]
Walking in a data-wonderland: Big Data meets virtual reality Mike Wheatley | August 12thREAD MOREOne of the biggest challenges with Big Data is that the human mind is just too feeble to comprehend such vast amounts of information. Our brains just become overwhelmed when you’re talking petabytes upon petabytes of data, but EU researchers think they’ve hit upon a way […]
A new technology developed by researchers funded by the European Union could revolutionise the way we process data – Big Data.With a whopping €6.5m of EU funding invested in this innovative initiative, the CEEDs project is comprised of 16 partners in nine countries (Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK).According to a European Commission press […]
Benchmarks ended almost unchanged as tensions between Russia and Ukraine tension escalated and two high-profile merger deals failed. These concerns offset positive performance of the consumer staples sector which was banking on Molson Coors Brewing’s robust results. Disappointing news from Italy and Germany also weighed on investor sentiment.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to […]
Poland’s Prime Minister increased its rhetoric on Russia’s continued buildup of military forces on the Ukraine border. He suggested that Russia is planning to invade under the guise of a peacekeeping mission to prevent further humanitarian violations, or at least pressure Ukraine’s government into ceasing its offensive in the eastern part of the country. This kept European equities weak overnight […]
