Concerns about Prudential’s exposure to China helped push the company’s shares down 10% from late May. Photograph: Reuters
Prudential says turbulence on the Chinese stock market has had little effect on its business there as it reported first-half profit ahead of City forecasts.The British insurer sought to soothe City concerns by saying its Chinese operation had performed consistently for 15 years […]
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Lucas Jackson/ReutersDick Costolo is out. Jack Dorsey is in.Twitter’s rally evaporated.On Friday, shares of the social-media company fell by as much as 0.2% after the stock rallied more than 10% on Thursday afternoon following news that CEO Dick Costolo would step down.In the final hour of trading, it clawed back into the green, rising about […]
By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy Nth Symposium was a few weeks ago and one of the keynotes was delivered by Portman Wills. Portman is the Chief Data Scientist at the Game Show Networks Games. Portman discussed how they log every action taken by gamers and with HP Vertica, they use that information to improve their users’ experience and drive higher revenue.For […]
Markets ended mostly in the red on Friday as both US Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen and ECB President Mario Draghi’s speeches at Jackson Hole, Wyo failed to encourage investors. Escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine also dragged the benchmarks down. Markets also witnessed the year’s lowest intraday composite traded volume for NYSE and Nasdaq.For a look at the issues currently […]
Stock Market Uptrend Looks UnderwayStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 17, 2014 – 01:25 PM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroThe market opened the week with a gap up to SPX 1945, pulled back to 1928 by tuesday, then gapped up twice more during the week to hit 1964 on friday. Then some geopolitical news spooked the market and it sold off to SPX 1942 […]
