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Stock Market News for March 18, 2015 – Zacks Investment Research

Benchmarks finished mostly lower on Tuesday as investors grew jittery ahead of FOMC’s statement regarding rate hike. Investors are looking for clues as to when the Federal Reserve will start hiking rates. The Federal Open Market Committee meeting kicked off on Tuesday. Fed officials are expected to begin the rate hike process by dropping the “patient” phrase. While the S&P […]

IBM pushes its big data software at Chinese universities – VentureBeat

IBM is pushing big data software to Chinese universities, by way of an agreement with China’s Ministry of Education.Under a program called IBM U-100, IBM is donate a whole mess of big data and analytics software worth $100 million and provide support for 100 Chinese universities, according to a statement IBM issued earlier this week. Among the offerings are IBM’s […]