Good economic data comes rolling in … and the market throws a taper tantrum.The ADP payroll report showed that 215,000 jobs were created in November, well ahead of the consensus expectation of 173,000, and October’s figure was revised from 130,000 to 184,000. Adding to the rosy outlook, initial claims for unemployment fell to 298,000 last week — much less than […]
In our last post, we warned of a new Windows local privilege escalation vulnerability being used in the wild. We noted that the Windows bug (CVE-2013-5065) was exploited in conjunction with a patched Adobe Reader bug (CVE-2013-3346) to evade the Reader sandbox. CVE-2013-3346 was exploited to execute the attacker’s code in the sandbox-restricted Reader process, where CVE-2013-5065 was exploited to […]
It is highly probable that a short-term correction is developing in the markets.The price point to watch on the Dow Industrials is 15750 and on the Transports it is 7100. If these levels hold solidly over the next few days then we will more than likely have a year-end rally. However, if they break over the next week or so […]
So you’ve decided to take financial matters into your own hands and open a brokerage account and you want to know how to trade stocks for the first time.Entering the world of stock trading a big decision and one you shouldn’t make unless you’ve already established financial essentials, such as an emergency savings fund and a retirement account with carefully selected […]
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[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Jayant Bhandari, writing from India. It is exerpted from this week’s TDV Dispatch, which you can subscribe to here.] I have devoted the last 8 years analyzing companies in the junior resource sector. I still […]
“’Big data’ is characterized not only by large quantities of data, but by interrelated, interconnected and sometimes self-referential data,” explained Will Green, a graduate student in the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture.With such far-reaching scope, it comes as little surprise that he and fellow architecture students are working with biomedical engineering students to create a way to visualize large […]
Benchmarks ended in negative territory on Monday as Thanksgiving weekend sales failed to ignite bullish sentiment among investors. Retail stocks were sold heavily, thereby dragging the retail sector and the broader markets. Meanwhile, the upbeat ISM manufacturing report was ignored as investors cautiously await key labor data on Friday. The drop on Cyber Monday comes after the benchmarks notched a […]
Have you ever had to endure the tedium of listening politely to a loquacious individual at a party brag about (a) the killing he made through investing in stocks, or (b) the stunning returns his little-known investment manager has generated? If you’ve wondered whether there’s a way to get in on the action, mirror trading or investing may be the […]
TweetThe theme of Big Data has spawned a tremendous amount of attention and investor interest in recent years. While much of the big data hype has focused on the storage, structured and unstructured processing technologies, London based investment bank GP Bullhound predicted that some of the most exciting developments are in the fields of Predictive Analytics and Advanced Visualization.The “Exabyte […]
Investing.com Technical Analysis (as of Thu, 28 November 2013 05:00pm EDT)by Investing.com Staff, Investing.comBelow, technical overviews and analysis for key stock indices, commodities and currency pairs, based on market activity at the close of the 28 November 2013 U.S. session. This information is a comprehensive summary derived from simple and exponential moving averages along with key technical indicators shown […]
