Stocks ended nearly flat, as investors took a breather after yesterday’s bull run. Meanwhile the Dow finished at new record high for the second consecutive day. Trading volumes for the day remained low. The energy sector was the biggest gainer among the S&P 500 industry groups while utilities stocks incurred maximum losses.For a look at the issues currently facing the […]
Stock Market Throws QE Taper Party Not Tantrum
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 18, 2013 – 11:01 PM GMTBy: Nadeem_Walayat
The stock market closed sharply higher today following the U.S. Fed central banks decision to start tapering by reducing the rate of QE money printing from $85 billion to $75 billion per month. The immediate reaction by the […]
Stock Market Four Day Losing Streak Ends
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 17, 2013 – 06:56 AM GMTBy: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short: When the US stock exchange opened, world markets were a mixed bag. The Nikkei and Shanghai Composite had both closed with 1.6% losses, but the EURO STOXX 50 was up 1.7% on Markit’s strong Flash […]
Stock Market Sentiment: Dow Industrials Weakening
Stock-Markets / Stock Market SentimentDec 16, 2013 – 03:37 PM GMTBy: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Declan. I have added a new market sentiment chart with relative momentum, trend and volume metrics in the one chart. As an example in the new chart, industrials (XLI) gained Thursday and Friday, but these gains were delivered […]
Stock Market Bummer! Losing Streak Now at Four Days
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 14, 2013 – 12:25 PM GMTBy: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short writes: At one minute before the close, it looked like the S&P 500 would snap its three-day losing streak. But at the Friday 13th closing bell, the index had tipped into the red, […]
Stock Market Christmas Rally Starts Monday! – ETF Trading Strategies
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 08, 2013 – 05:45 PM GMTBy: Chris_Vermeulen
Tis the Season for the most powerful seasonality trade of the year!Seasonal ETF Trading StrategiesWith the stock market up big in 2013 and most participants are speculating on a pullback in the next week or two, […]
GOLD Technical Analysis Charts
Commodities / Gold and Silver 2013Dec 01, 2013 – 04:12 PM GMTBy: Submissions
Thomas Clayton writes: I have adjusted the variable parameters to titrate to the best signal .. Cross of stochastic rsi below 0.8 or above 0.2 and, slow stochastics 80 & 20, macd line cross works well on […]
TweetThe theme of Big Data has spawned a tremendous amount of attention and investor interest in recent years. While much of the big data hype has focused on the storage, structured and unstructured processing technologies, London based investment bank GP Bullhound predicted that some of the most exciting developments are in the fields of Predictive Analytics and Advanced Visualization.The “Exabyte […]
Around a third of the UK’s larger organizations – around 6,400 – will implement big data analytics programs in the next five years, pushing the demand for big data specialists up by 243 per cent to 69,000.
The figures come from a report produced by e-skills UK on behalf of SAS UK & Ireland which collected data from over 1,000 organizations.
The […]
Oracle Boosts Big Data Appliance, Adds Cloudera
November 13th, 2013
By: John Rath
Oracle gives a storage and Cloudera boost to its big data appliance, Alcatel-Lucent helps uncover mobile analytics, and CA ERwin bridges the big data gap in the enterprise.
Oracle Boosts Big Data Appliance
Oracle (ORCL) announced that Big Data Appliance X4-2 is now available, providing enterprises with a comprehensive and secure engineered […]
