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Stock Market News for April 29, 2014 – Zacks Investment Research

Benchmarks finished Monday’s choppy run mostly higher as investor sentiment following new deals in the health care sector, positive pending home sales data and intense selling pressure on internet stocks. While merger and acquisition activity in the health care sector helped the S&P 500 and Dow close in the green, the Nasdaq ended in negative territory due to decline in […]

PPC/USD Technical Analysis – 29th April 2014 – Digital Currency …

Despite a fall below 2 on Peercoin yesterday, we do now have some decent support which looks to have stopped the sell off in its tracks, yet – will it be able to hold? Let’s take a closer look at the latest PPC/USD Daily chart below: I’ve performed the Fibonacci study from the low at 1.536 on […]

Open Cloud Test Bed Bolsters Big Data Innovation – HPCwire

On Friday, in the Western Massachusetts town of Holyoke, Governor Deval Patrick and officials from industry, government and academia joined together for the official launch of a $3 million capital investment, known as the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project. The public-private initiative will establish a new cloud computing infrastructure to serve as a virtual laboratory for big data researchers and […]

Innovation Day delves into Big Data » Binghamton University …

Every two days, the world generates as much data as there was in existence until 10 years ago. And while this data has enormous potential, it sometimes feels like we’re drowning in it.That was just one of the observations shared during the third-annual Innovation Day at Binghamton University. The April 24 event, which drew about 125 participants from industry and […]

LTC/USD Technical Analysis – 28th April 2014 – Digital Currency …

Ever since the highs that Litecoin experienced at 14.23, exactly two weeks ago, price has been falling down consistently, barely offering glimmers of hope to speculators and investors. The weekend was a similar story, with price deliberating for some time, before dropping once again. Let’s take a closer look at the latest LTC/USD H4 chart below (click to expand): […]

Big Data Platform InsideSales.com Raises $100M From Polaris …

Another big round for a fast-growing enterprise startup focused on big data and the cloud. InsideSales.com has raised $100 million at a valuation of almost $1 billion, a number first reported by DJ’s Venture Wire, and now confirmed by us with a reliable source close to the company. Polaris Partners led the Series C round, with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers the other major investor, along […]

Stocks fall Friday, tipping market into the red for the week | Wright …

Continuing their recent stop-and-go pattern of trading, U.S. stock prices fell sharply Friday, taking the major market indexes into negative territory for the week and, for many of them, for the year to date as well. The Dow declined 140 points or 0.8% Friday, matching the S&P 500′s 0.8% drop. NASDAQ, on renewed selling in internet stocks, lost 1.8% for […]

High-Beta Names Lead Stocks Lower – Briefing.com

[BRIEFING.COM] The major averages spent the last session of the week in a steady retreat despite receiving a round of better than expected earnings from the technology sector. The Nasdaq lost 1.8%, widening its April decline to 2.9%, while the S&P 500 fell 0.8%, swinging to a month-to-date loss to 0.5%. The benchmark index notched a session low not far […]

Morning technical analysis – 25 April 2014 | Alpari Newsroom | Live …

Morning technical analysis – 25 April 2014April 25, 2014 by Craig Erlam in Featured, Technical analysisEURUSDThe euro is creeping higher again this morning but the picture hasn’t really changed here. The pair is still range bound, with support being found around 1.3788, from the 50 fib level – 4 April lows to 11 April highs – and resistance around 1.3850. […]