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In Stock Market, Anxiety Can Be Good Thing | The Big Picture

Click here to get the RSS Feed! In Stock Market, Anxiety Can Be Good Thingby Barry Ritholtz – August 18th, 2014, 12:30pmTweet ThisEmail This PostPrint This PostSource: WSJCategory: Digital Media, Investing, Sentiment← 10 Monday AM Reads
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be […]

How Big Data Can Inform Healthcare Decisions | Kaiser …

In current medical practice, newborns are typically taken to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) if the mother’s temperature rises above 100.4 degrees because that may signal an increased risk of neonatal sepsis, a bacterial blood infection. With the emergence of Big Data and evidence-based medical practices, many infants are spared that trip due to an innovative metric that allows […]

Stock Market Tremors and the Financial Bubble Economy. The …

All three major US stock indexes fell Friday, capping the largest weekly decline in US stock markets in nearly two months. The catalyst for Friday’s sell-off was a very weak series of sales figures and projections from three corporations tied to consumer spending: Amazon, the largest online retailer; Wal-Mart, the largest brick-and-mortar retailer; and Visa, the credit and debit card […]

U.S. Stock Market Update | Seeking Alpha

SummaryOption 1: Market takes a correction in July to relieve over bought, over loved status. This is potentially a healthy pause to refresh before new highs.
Option 2: Market channel bursts upward and momentum fuels an upside blow off that would be terminal to the bull, a la ‘Silver 2011’.
We lean toward Option 1 for now.
The following is an excerpt from […]

QE and the Japanese stock market (part one) | Andrew Smithers

Hello!I’m Andrew Smithers; I studied economics at Cambridge and used to run the fund management business at S G Warburg which became Mercury Asset Management and is now BlackRock.I set up Smithers & Co in 1989 as an economics consultancy. Much of the comments on economics and markets that I read as a fund manager struck me as nonsense and […]

Fears About Big Data Unfounded, Report Says | Technocrat – Roll Call

Fears About Big Data Unfounded, Report Says
By Anne L. Kim Posted at 8 a.m. on May 14
A report from the Technology Policy Institute says there’s no evidence that big data harms privacy. “Privacy advocates, scholars and public officials have raised concern over a number of potential privacy threats from big data,” the think tank’s report says. “As of now there is […]

How to secure a great job in big data – BetaNews

How to secure a great job in big dataGet a grounding in basic statistics
In data analytics, everyone needs at least some formal training in statistical analysis. Degrees with some statistical component are highly valued, such as science or math, but that doesn’t mean it’s just scientists who are desirable in the big data space.
Anabel Gutierrez, lecturer of business […]

Survey Says: Avoid the Stock Market – The Daily Reckoning

In honor of yet another all-time high in the S&P 500, I have a quick question for you…If you had a spare $1,000, where would you invest it?If your answer has anything to do with the stock market, you’re in the minority.Shocking, isn’t it?A Gallup poll posed this question in a survey in January — shortly after the previous all-time […]