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Stock Markets, Oil, EUR/USD and Gold!

Dear Reader,US stock markets end January 2015 in minus. The correction should exceed 20%, tech and biotech stocks will fall more. EU stocks should finish 2015 in minus as well. Gold should fall with a target of 1050 USD. EUR/USD should touch 1.05 in 2015.Shale oil and gas plays in the US seem a good value play at these levels, […]

The State of The Markets…2015

Share on StockTwitsEmbedThings have for sure gotten tougher in the markets despite the free money, low interest rate environment.The 10 year yield in the USA is below 1.80 percent. You can buy that, not me. I would rather have cash and a few bitcoins below $200.Despite the boom in biotech and private investing, the overall ‘tape’ has changed. I could […]

Social Network Big Data Lens Target Ads – Business Insider

Cooper Smith

Aug. 18, 2014, 11:05 AM
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The average global internet user spends two and a half hours daily on social media, and information on their activity — gathered under the catch-all ‘big data’ — reveals a great deal about what makes them tick.
Now, social networks are making significant investments in putting this data to work to deliver personalized content, and […]

Interview: Vita Markman, LinkedIn on Practical Solutions for …

We discuss sentiment data models, significance of linguistic features, handling the noise in social conversations, industry challenges, important use cases and the appropriateness of over-simplified binary classification. By Anmol Rajpurohit, @hey_anmol, Aug 4, 2014.Vita Markman is currently employed as a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, where she works on various natural language processing applications such as performing sentiment analysis of customer […]

STTG Market Recap July 31, 2014 – Stock Trading To Go

Thursday was the first very truly rough day in a long while for the indexes but it should not have been a major surprise.  If you have been reading our recaps we had been mentioning how the indexes were being held up by some big names but under the surface breadth was weakening.  Further the NYSE McClellan Oscillator has been […]

Why Old-School Tech Tops "Social" Stocks – Agora Financial

While many of the newer social media stocks struggle for gains this year, old-school tech stocks have become some of the best trades on the market. With the rare exception (Facebook is doing well—shares are up 26% year-to-date) the social stocks are in the gutter. They got off to a fast start in January and Februray, but ran out of […]

Social media stocks start to bounce back | Nightly Business Report

Don’t look now, but one of the hardest-hit sectors in the stock market is getting some of its swagger back. Social media has been on a bit of a stealth-like bull run and some traders are starting to take note.While there have been individual leaders and laggards among the group, generally speaking, sentiment has been improving. One exchange-traded fund that […]

Social media stocks start to bounce back – CNBC.com

Don’t look now, but one of the hardest-hit sectors in the stock market is getting some of its swagger back. Social media has been on a bit of a stealth-like bull run and some traders are starting to take note. While there have been individual leaders and laggards among the group, generally speaking, sentiment has been […]

Dropbox Has Quietly Acquired Parastructure, A Big Data Startup In …

Dropbox has been acquiring companies to help it expand the services that it can offer to consumers and enterprises beyond cloud storage. But the company — which has raised $1.1 billion and is among the larger tech startups tipped for an IPO – is also making strategic acquisitions to help keep its own house in order.We have found out that Dropbox has quietly acquired a company called Parastructure, a startup still in stealth that builds data-analysis […]

Are Social Media Stocks Making A Comeback? | Seeking Alpha

SummaryThe earnings outlook for growth stocks has been improving lately which could explain some of the fuel behind social media names.

Data from the Estimize platform supports the theory that both Wall Street and investors are becoming increasingly optimistic about growth companies and more specifically […]