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Stock market selloff ahead but not panic, pros say – CNBC.com

Not panic, just repositioning: Pro
Discussing Friday’s jobs data, and potential Fed action, with Suni Harford, Citigroup, and CNBC’s Steve Liesman.
Stocks—already seeing their worst week this year—could see a continued selloff in the coming days, O’Neil Securities Director Kenny Polcari said Friday.For the S&P 500, “1,910 is going to be the 100-day moving average. That’s going to be where at least […]

Social media listening helps gauge customer sentiment, industry …

There are a number of marketing tools that brands can use to promote products and services to consumers, but social media may be one of the best. There are millions of people actively engaged on the platform at any given time and it only makes sense for companies to take advantage of this from a marketing perspective.But social media isn’t […]

Technical Analysis: WTI Crude Oil And US Nat Gas | Live Trading …

Technical Analysis: WTI Crude Oil And US Nat GasPosted by: : Paul EbelingPosted on: July 30, 2014Technical Analysis: WTI Crude Oil And US Nat GasWTI Crude OilWTI Crude Oil closed lower Tuesday.The low range close sets the stage for a steady opening when Wednesday’s US session opens.Stochastics and the RSI are turning Neutral to Bearish signalling that sideways to lower […]

The 4 Layers of Big Data Everyone Must Know | SmartData Collective

There is still so much confusion surrounding Big Data. I thought it might help to clarify the 4 key layers of a big data system – i.e. the different stages the data itself has to pass through on its journey from raw statistic or snippet of unstructured data (for example, social media post) to actionable insight.The whole point of a […]

Why People Trade Penny Stocks – Business Insider

AntiqueStocks.comPink Sheets printed in 1984 by the National Quotation Bureau, listing all the over-the-counter stocks and their market makers, along with prices.July 2014 may go down as a defining month of this bull market, since it brought us the overnight sensation known as Cynk, an internet penny stock that had been floating under the radar until it got pumped up […]

Why The Stock Market Is Still Cheap | Seeking Alpha

People think U.S. stocks are expensive…Yes, they have gone up a lot… But according to our favorite measure of stock market value, stocks are NOT expensive.It’s a simple indicator, but it encompasses the important stuff. And right now, it’s telling us you could make double-digit profits in stocks over the next 12 months…When our in-house stock market value indicator is […]

Technical Analysis for the Value Investor – Investing Sidekick

I like to think of myself as open-minded, I try to not to let my pre-existing biases get in the way of learning new things and new ideas. But I also like to think of myself as a skeptic – unless someone can show evidence or proof that an idea is correct, I’ll have a hard time accepting it.So when […]

Richard Reeves: Catching Up With Big Data – Truthdig

ShutterstockThis is a column about “Big Data” and a new way to predict the results of presidential elections for the next 20 years.We begin with the rise of Nate Silver, the former baseball statistician retained by The New York Times, and his blog, “FiveThirtyEight,” which accurately predicted the results of the 2008 vote in 49 of the 50 states. He […]

Big Data should not be a faith-based initiative – Boing Boing

The debate is a hot one, and a lot of non-technical privacy regulators have been led on by sweet promises from the companies that they regulate about the possibility of creating booming markets in highly sensitive personal data that is somehow neutralized through a magic “de-identification” process that lets information about, say, the personal lives of cancer patients be bought […]

Negative Brand Sentiment | Bad Business Branding

Extensive thought, planning and design work goes into the creation of a company’s name, logo, and tagline in order to ensure that all 3 do a great job of properly representing the business, culture, and products or services.What does our name convey?What does this logo color mean?How might our customers interpret our message?I was following along on a recent Facebook […]