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CT News Junkie | Will Big Data Help Local Candidates?

by Christine Stuart | Nov 4, 2013 3:48pm
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Posted to: Election 2013, Town News, Southbury, Local PoliticsChristine Stuart photoSouthbury First Selectman Ed Edelson

Knowing they’re not going to get the same turnout Tuesday that they do in gubernatorial or presidential election years, municipal candidates on both sides of the […]

'Definitely a bubble brewing' in stocks: Pro – CNBC.com

“Where I’d avoid is the consumer-related names. Stay away from the retail-type of names. I think consumer confidence is going to be hit hard,” he said. “But I think some of these commodity names take a bid. The dollar continues to get weaker. Emerging market data gets better, so a Rio Tinto, that type of names—those are where […]

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 […]

Big Data-Driven Applications to Fuel API Economy – FTP Directory …

The whole point of investing in Big Data is to drive the development of a new generation of data-driven applications. The challenge most organizations will face is that once they build those applications they will need to have a robust set of APIs through which to share the information those applications create.While it’s still early days in terms of the […]

“Futurehunter” Examines the Dangers of Stock Trading at the Speed

In this excerpt from Humanity in the Machine: What Comes after Greed? futurist Brian David Johnson describes his job as a “futurehunter” and his fascination with both algorithmic trading and high-frequency trading (HFT). Both methods use computer programs to automate and accelerate the execution of certain financial transactions. Yet heavy reliance on such technology in the finance world can be […]

Social Media Stock Sentiment Analysis Platform Market Prophit …

Oct 139NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ – Market Prophit, an industry-leading provider of real-time stock market sentiment analysis of social media conversations, has been selected as a member of Interactive Brokers’ The Marketplace@IB.  The Marketplace@IB is a self-service community that brings together third parties who have products and services to offer with Interactive Brokers (IB) customers and traders who […]

How social media sentiment can affect markets – INO.com

On a daily basis over 140 million users of micro-blogging service – Twitter are generating a collective 340 million small text messages. This abundance of data contains a multitude of patterns hidden within. But can this data predict whether the stocks go up or down? Can it really assist traders on making calculated, informed and successful trades?I think it is […]

“Fundamentals and Technical Analysis of Stocks”- One Day …

It is of common wisdom to enter the stock market in an organized manner, acquire proper knowledge and then act accordingly to work your way up the ladder. For students interested in exploring this as a career,  a one day Workshop  was conducted on “Fundamental and Technical Analysis of Stocks”  as an attempt to provide an insight into the field. The […]