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Biotech stocks offer risks, payoffs – Sun, 11 Jan 2015 PST

You might want to invest in biotechnology, but be careful. It’s not an easy industry to master, and while some companies eventually skyrocket, many others flame out.One simple way to invest in biotech is the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (Nasdaq: IBB), which is a fund of roughly 150 stocks that has grown by an annual average of almost 15 percent […]

What Moves the Stock Market? – Washington Wire – WSJ – WSJ Blogs

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Robert Litan

Dow Jones Industrial Average over 2014.
The Wall Street Journal
With the stock market’s unexpected boom toward the end of 2014, what better way to ring in the new year than to reexamine that age-old question: What drives stock returns? Is it earnings’ growth fundamentals or short-term momentum swings in investor behavior?
The answer matters because most forecasters expect the economy to […]

Oil, (Tech) Stocks!

Dear Reader,The Federal Reserve helped markets recover last week. The shale oil and gas companies recovered clocking in 20% gains or more in some cases. Oil also bounced back. The stocks of some of the smallest shale and gas companies have recorded huge losses in excess of 70% from their June 2014 values. If the oil price recovers, they will […]

Biotech Stock Roundup: Avanir to be Acquired by Japanese Firm …

Mergers and acquisitions show no signs of slowing down in the biotech sector with a $3.5 billion acquisition agreement being announced. Meanwhile, Biogen (BIIB – Analyst Report) is advancing towards developing a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.Recap of the Week’s Most Important Stories1. Biogen is set to move its experimental Alzheimer’s disease treatment, BIIB037, into late-stage testing based on promising interim […]

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Stock Market News for November 21, 2014 – Zacks Investment …

Benchmarks ended in the green zone on Thursday as upbeat economic reports and strong retail earnings results offset dismal data from the Euro-zone and China. Moreover, Intel’s encouraging earnings outlook helped tech shares to post solid gains. Rebound in oil prices boosted energy shares. The Dow and S&P 500 registered yet another record high.For a look at the issues currently […]

Big Data: Putting Heat on the Hate | Re/code

Five years ago, President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.That law, enacted in memory of two people brutally killed in hate crimes, has generated important police training and outreach to prevent crimes rooted in hate-filled discrimination and bigotry. It also has produced comprehensive statistics — in tandem with the Hate Crime Statistics Act […]

AMCON offloads shares as stock market recovers N8.5trn in 5 yrs …

By PETER EGWUATUThe Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON may have begun to offload some of the shares it acquired from the non-performing loans of banks and other companies as the value of shares listed on the Nigerian stock market have rebounded to the level of 160.2 per cent or N8.5 trillion in five years.Nigerian Stock ExchangeSpecifically, the market capitalisation […]

Taiwan mulls cross-border stock trading with Japan|Economy …

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P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » From (inter)objective Big Data to …

From (inter)objective Big Data to (inter)subjective Deep DataMichel Bauwens16th August 2014
The real problem of big data is that we are increasingly outsourcing our capacity to sense and think to algorithms programmed into machines. While this seems very convenient and cool at first and offers access to services that many of us want, it also raises a question about who actually […]