RFID. While its roots are generally traced back to World War II, radio frequency identification technology did not find a supply chain toehold until the 1970s when the first patents were issued. That was the same time frame in which the U.S. government’s Department of Energy asked the Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop a system for tracking nuclear materials. […]
Stocks declined Tuesday after a three-day bull run as investors kept searching for clues about when the Federal Reserve would taper its stimulus program. The trading day lacked action and there were hardly any economic data to guide the benchmarks. In fact, the approval of the Volcker Rule also had no role to play in changing investor sentiment. Materials sector […]
The S&P 500 closed at another record high and fellow benchmarks ended in the green, while investors were left searching for clues about the timing of the Fed’s tapering of its stimulus plan. The S&P 500 was somewhat boosted by SYSCO Corporation’s (NYSE:SYY) announcement that it was purchasing rival U.S. Foods. The materials sector was the biggest gainer among the […]
Trade parameters: Sold CAC-40.I CFDs at 4.140.37 with stop at 4.250 (on close)Trade idea backgroundFrance and its stock market “own” the luxury goods market. According to Bain & Co. it controls 25 percent of the world market for these sought-after products. The problem with this “luxury” is of course that emerging market growth overall, and Chinese growth in particular, is slowing […]
Like urban bike-sharing programs everywhere, Chicago’s Divvy must contend with a key problem: due to commuting patterns, some bike stations empty out fast while others fill up quickly, leaving no space for more drop-offs.But such urban problems can be addressed with socially minded computer science, as a group of 50 Chicago high school students learned recently during a daylong conference […]
In Argentina’s stock market, investment decisions are based mainly on the behavior of the US dollar/Argentine peso exchange rate. Since 2011, Argentina’s government has introduced several measures that have made this possible.As an introductory note, Argentina’s economic history has been dominated by a preference to save money in US dollars (USD). This behavior is a consequence of the high inflation […]
Encouraging economic reports through last week helped indices post a number of records on Friday. The S&P 500 closed above 1,800 for the first time and the blue-chip index recorded its longest stretch of weekly gains in three years. The tech-laden Nasdaq also joined the party, hitting a new 13-year high. The health care sector was the biggest gainer among […]
Now that the U.S. government shutdown is behind us it is instructive to review what we went without for those weeks. Recently writing for the Financial Times, Robin Harding reported that experts feared that the U.S. government would be “flying blind” without access to the big data collected by the government, and which was imperiled by the shutdown.We would have been […]
On Tuesday November 19thVSS Monitoring, a leading provider of network packet brokers (NPBs), launched their Big Data Visibility solution. The system combines network data with big data from external sources to allow analysis of that data as a single dataset. Thus making the Big Data Visibility solution the industry’s first to capture, groom and distribute network data to both network and application […]
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