The hotly anticipated stock-market debut of Twitter exceeded expectations on Thursday when a stampede for shares sent the company’s value to more than $24bn – an extraordinary debut for a company that has never made a profit, and whose launch had already been the subject of considerable hype.The company set a share price of $26 on Tuesday but fierce bidding […]
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HedgeChatter: Twitter IPO and the Increasing Role of Social Media in the Stock Market
Ronald Barba
Sep 17, 2013
In April, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 150 points after a specious tweet made by The Associated Press claimed that an explosion at the White House caused injuries to President Obama. The tweet was quickly marked as fake, and the Dow stabilized after three minutes, but […]
Speculation is flying this week as Apple gears up to make its much-anticipated announcement on Tuesday, September 10. Will iPhones come in new colors? Will there be a low-cost version? Will it scan your fingerprints?
We won’t know for sure until tomorrow. But for Apple shareholders, those questions are minor details compared to the real issue: Will the new iPhone sell?
This […]
Mark Lennihan/APBy Jed Horowitz, Lauren Tara LaCapra and Herbert LashNEW YORK — Thirty minutes into the crippling outage that hobbled the Nasdaq stock market Thursday afternoon, stopping all trading in $5.9 trillion worth of U.S. equities, exchange officials had the problem fixed.It was another 2½ hours, however, before they were ready to flip the switch and turn the all-electronic […]
Editors’ Note: This article covers a micro-cap stock. Please be aware of the risks associated with these stocks.SunGame Corporation (OTCQB:SGMZ) is the most expensive penny stock I have ever seen. In fact, it is safe to say that this one stock completely disproves the “efficient market hypothesis,” which is so loved by academics. Not only is this stock grossly overvalued, […]
The marketing world has been buzzing this week about a new study from
social superstar Coca-Cola. Despite the brand’s massive social
following and celebrated dedication to highly-sharable content, recent analysis by the Coke team found that online buzz had no measurable impact on short-term soft drink sales.Many clung to the study’s findings that TV and display ads showed
more sales […]
Social media came to a much different initial verdict about the first presidential debate than did the early polls and the conventional press, according to an analysis of the conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. On both Twitter and Facebook, the conversation was much more critical of Mitt Romney than it […]
It’s surely a sign of APIs growing up when enterprise vendors are building tools to utilize them. Business management solutions company SAP AG has a new solution that helps businesses and organizations gain insights into market trends and customer sentiment in real-time. The “SAP Rapid-Deployment Solution for Sentiment Intelligence with SAP HANA” loads text data from any Web Channel that […]
The White HouseOffice of the Press SecretaryFor Immediate ReleaseApril 04, 2012FACT SHEET: The STOCK Act: Bans Members of Congress from Insider Trading“Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress; I will sign it tomorrow.” — President Obama, State of the Union, January 24, 2012In the State of the Union Address, the President laid out a blueprint […]
