Only 2% of Indians trade in stocks, these ex-hedge fund managers want to change the scene
“Only two per cent of Indians trade in stocks and this includes mutual funds. It’s ridiculous!” exclaim, Raghu Kumar, Co-founder of RKSV. Having grown up in the US, where close to 40 per cent of the population trades in stocks, Raghu and his brother Ravi […]
Never mind how the U.S. stock market is posting modest year-to-date losses close to 2%. Momentum stocks are up and so is risk taking.A comparison of the iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF (MTUM) – a good proxy for the risk appetite of bullishly trending stocks – versus the S&P 500 (^GSPC) shows that momentum stocks have not yet lost their luster. Over the past […]
© Carlo Allegri/Reuters A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on the last day of trading before Christmas in the Manhattan borough of New York, December 24, 2014.U.S. stocks fluctuated, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX) poised for a third straight yearly gain as equity gauges climbed past multiple milestones last week.Gilead […]
Stock market today, December 26, 2014: Good morning! U.S. stock futures for Friday, Dec. 26, forecasted a 31-point gain. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose six points to close at a record high. Investor optimism continued on news that the economy is strengthening. Third-quarter GDP hit 5%, while the U.S. economy has seen 2.7 million new jobs added this year – its best […]
Benchmarks settled in the green for the fourth-straight session boosted by gains made by large-cap technology stocks. The S&P 500 closed at a record level for the 50th time in 2014, its highest number of record closings in a year since 1995. The Dow too posted a record close for the 35th time this year. Gains in technology shares offset […]
Benchmarks ended slightly lower on Thursday after hitting record highs on the previous day after the European Central Bank failed to provide solid clues about further monetary stimulus. Moreover, investors were also cautious ahead of Friday’s nonfarm employment report. However, encouraging jobless claims report limited some of the losses on Thursday.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, […]
by Jason Gumpert, Editorpublished November 9, 2014Microsoft Social Listening has grown to more than a thousand customers so far, and the product will be making a leap in its sentiment analysis coverage in 2015. The product will expand from six languages (with Italian to be added in the next month or so) up to nineteen as the product shifts to […]
Data should do more than help companies save money — it should make them money, said Peter Fishman, Director of Analytics at Yammer, Inc.. Since July of 2012, Yammer has been a part of Microsoft, Corp., providing private social networks within the company and contributing to Microsoft’s suite of products.Peter Fishman discussed Yammer’s integration with Microsoft, how companies can get […]
Of course, Google has been busy. In the past few years, researchers have cooked up a complex and powerful new data-warehousing system called Mesa.Mesa was born out of Google’s core business: Internet advertising. To serve its advertising customers and internal needs, Google collects detailed information about a given ad, and it has to record and process that data in real […]
All three major US stock indexes fell Friday, capping the largest weekly decline in US stock markets in nearly two months. The catalyst for Friday’s sell-off was a very weak series of sales figures and projections from three corporations tied to consumer spending: Amazon, the largest online retailer; Wal-Mart, the largest brick-and-mortar retailer; and Visa, the credit and debit card […]
