The recent divergence between equity prices and treasury yields has spooked investors who think lower rates are a sign of softer economic growth.Yet periods of decoupling are more common than you may think.Since 2000, the correlation between the S&P 500 and the U.S. 10-year treasury yield has sharply swung into negative territory eight times, said Brian Belski, chief investment strategist […]
Big Data trends intensify storage business boomStaff writer, DIGITIMES, Taipei [Tuesday 3 June 2014]The cumulative amount of data produced worldwide is predicted to reach 40ZB by 2020, which is 50 times more than that of 2010 according to preliminary estimates. That means the amount of storage data will double once every two years, and the era of the unprecedented digital […]
Investors Bank On Twitter Insiders SellingBy Catherine Holahan+ (@cholahan) Editor |
May 5th, 2014
Share on StockTwitsWhen the lock breaks, Twitter could become unhinged. Investors on StockTwits.com prepared for the worst ahead of Tuesday’s share lockup expiration. Starting tomorrow, Twitter insiders will be able to sell 480 million shares that were previously restricted. The amount […]
Hybrid Lindsay Anticipates a Stock Market Drop This WeekStock-Markets / Cycles AnalysisApr 29, 2014 – 05:22 PM GMTBy: Ed_Carlson
Last week’s Commentary showed a forecast for an expected high in the Dow near Monday, 4/21/14. Last week’s high came on Tuesday, one day later than expected. This week I will attempt to use […]
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Abstract
Twitter has been increasingly used for spreading messages about campaigns. Such campaigns try to gain followers through their Twitter accounts, influence the followers and spread messages through them. In this paper, we explore the relationship between followers sentiment towards the campaign topic and their rate of retweeting of messages generated by the campaign. Our analysis with followers of multiple social-media […]
Across the field of health and wellness there is a lot of talk about data, from consumer self-tracking and Quantified Self data, to data-driven, personalized health care, to data-intensive, crowd sourced, scientific discovery. But what are these different stakeholders talking about when they talk about data and are they talking about the same thing?At EPIC, in the “Big Data/Ethnography or […]
Ah, porn. The reason incognito mode was invented. A new paper offers an instructive look into the fascinating perusing habits of warm-blooded Internet users, and compiles all that revealing data into useful charts. (Hat tip to The Atlantic and Wired.)We’ve seen before how porn sites use data to deliver targeted advertising. But this study’s aim is a bit different. The […]
Today was the first truly bad day of 2014 for the stock market. The Dow closed down 175, although off the lows, while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 shed half a percent each. In the recent past, these have been shrugged off. But that was in the pre-taper environment, when dips were scarce and corrections were federally outlawed.
Today “felt” different […]
Big Data might just be critical to the success of SDN, NFV and CSPs’ cloud strategies, but are the incumbent OSS/BSS systems ready for the change?
Many CSP big data projects are standalone business intelligence or customer experience solutions. Unlike these ‘pure’ big data solutions, closing the loop between data, analytics and the network itself will require incumbent OSS/BSS to be […]
