Twitter Inc.’s (TWTR) insiders and early backers finally have the option to relinquish their stakes in the company as the ‘lockup period’ – a 180-day restriction imposed on selling Twitter stock on certain classes of shareholders – has expired today. The expiration makes nearly 480 million shares eligible for sale, which equals nearly 83% of the basic outstanding shares issued […]
Cosmetics company Estée Lauder (NYSE:EL) made for some mighty impressive trading collars on Friday. Shares surged 4.75% to end at an historic high – no mean feat in a week when its arch-rival Avon Products (NYSE:AVP) imploded. The firm, whose myriad other brands include Aramis, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, Bumble and bumble, Clinique, Flirt!, Origins, and Smashbox, boosted its profit outlook. Today, however, its excessive subsequent […]
April 25, 2014IBM Big Data Improves Agricultural EfficiencyIBM’s weather forecasting technology will help Georgia farmers improve agricultural efficiency by up to 20 percent, the company says.The Flint River Partnership (which includes the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and The Nature Conservancy) tapped IBM big data to enable smarter irrigation. Working with the University […]
by Rob Jenkins, Global Center of Excellence, SAPBig Data is often mentioned as one of the game-changing technology trends that every company must capitalize on to stay competitive. Most CIOs are familiar with how Big Data can be leveraged for transforming marketing (like multi-channel promotion effectiveness), manufacturing (defect prevention) or distribution (dynamic routing systems). In this era of technology innovation, […]
VOL. 129 | NO. 75 | Thursday, April 17, 2014
Guest Column
February Has Stock Market ‘Reboot’
REED WALTERS […]
By Sheldon Levine – Wednesday, April 9th, 2014 at 2:03 pm […]
JPMWe recently posted the latest slide deck from JPMorgan Asset Management, which has a number of charts relating to both the market and the economy. It’s a useful thing to flip through as Q2 gets under way.Two charts really stand out, as it pertains to the market. The above charts shows the S&P going back to 1997, and if you […]
But the selloff in the frothiest names in the stock market that caused a 2.6 percent decline in the Nasdaq on Friday alone is what investors will be watching. That was the worst day for the Nasdaq since November, 2011. “It’s a little bit of a warning, but I’m taking it as a late-cycle signal, which would […]
Originally published April 4, 2014 at 6:41 AM | Page modified April 5, 2014 at 3:24 AM
NEW YORK — A slump in Internet and other technology stocks pulled the broader market lower Friday, as traders turned on the same companies they flocked to earlier this year. Google, Netflix and other pillars of the Internet economy took […]
Hortonworks innovates the latest open enterprise Hadoop with release 2.1 of its Hortonworks Data Platform, MapR expands big data search with Elasticsearch, and SAS updates its Master Data Management and SAS Federation Server software.Hortonworks launches HDP 2.1. Hortonworks announced the availability of its open enterprise Hadoop platform Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.1. HDP 2.1 delivers required enterprise functionality for data management, data access, data […]
