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Ominous Portents in Consumer Sentiment

by Lee Adler, Wall Street ExaminerWhile the media focuses on the meaningless short term squiggles in consumer confidence indicators, I like to look at the long term trend. I like it because US consumers in the aggregate are far better forecasters of markets and the US economy than are the professional economic and financial pundits who are so focused on […]

U.S. Stock Market On The 'Edge Of Tomorrow' | Seeking Alpha

SummaryMarkets tend to reset.
Resetting can be difficult for the long-duration common stock investor.
Market timing requires one to live on the “edge of tomorrow.”
Recently, we heard a market prognosticator declare that we could have a 30 percent decline in stock prices in the next 12 months. Presumably because investors fear starting over again, like many did at the market bottom in […]

Saudi Arabia's $530 Billion Stock Market Will Open to Foreign …

Fast FeedSaudi Arabia’s $530 Billion Stock Market Will Open to Foreign InvestorsStarting next year, foreigners can tap into the Kingdom’s flush bourse.
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Saudi Arabia is opening its $530 billion stock market to foreign investors for the first time in a move meant to shift its economy away from dependence on oil revenue. News of this expansion, slated for the first […]

Stock Market Bears Turn :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets …

Stock Market Bears TurnStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jul 22, 2014 – 10:26 AM GMTBy: Jack_SteimanSo maybe that means we gap up tomorrow, or maybe someone will finally the initiative and run this thing one way or the other. It is absolutely ridiculous how this market is gapping up, literally, every day. Yet the market goes nowhere as the trend is […]

Stock Market Crash Nightmare! :: The Market Oracle :: Financial …

Stock Market Crash Nightmare!Stock-Markets / Financial CrashJul 21, 2014 – 03:03 PM GMTBy: Nadeem_WalayatMy yesterdays article painted a picture of a stock market that has failed to correct the consequences of which were for sowing the seeds for a more violent future correction that could even risk triggering an end to the 5.5 year stocks bull market that began in […]

Stock Market Gap and Stop…. :: The Market Oracle :: Financial …

Stock Market Gap and Stop….Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jul 17, 2014 – 01:19 PM GMTBy: Jack_SteimanThe market tried to get through that 4443 gap on the Nasdaq once again today. It failed. It had a good shot thanks to the earnings from Intel Corporation (INTC) last night. That stock exploded today. Normally when that happens to this degree, and it […]

Duetto Raises $21M Led By Accel To Equip Hotels With Big Data …

Hotels can double their profitability by successfully marking up rooms just 10 percent. That’s why Accel Partners is betting hotels will pay for Duetto, a price optimization SaaS that uses big data to dynamically surge or discount rates for rooms. Duetto can help hotels drop prices if no one is visiting their website, or charge more if it detects a […]

The Signals That Will Tell Us A Stock Market … – Peak Prosperity

Executive SummaryUnderstanding the importance of the ‘Smith Market Uncertainty Principle’
Technical analysis techniques for identifying the arrival of a market reversal
Bollinger bands
volatility
moving averages

Using the above indicators to know when to sell
If you have not yet read The Approaching Inevitable Market Reversal, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
In Part 1, we reviewed the case for the […]

Points of Light: How nonprofits are using big data – Knight Foundation

Points of light (cc) by James Marvin Phelps.
Last week I attended the Points of Light National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Aptly named “Service Unites,” it gathered more than 5,000 leaders from the nonprofit, corporate and civic sectors to learn and help shape the future of volunteerism. These changemakers from across the country were examining how to put civic engagement […]

The Value of Big Data | Starkmedia Blog

Big data has become the buzzword within the digital marketing community—and rightfully so.  The way we approach the abundance of data an organization has at their fingertips about their customers is the fundamental challenge that marketers face today. Marketers need to understand what questions can be asked and answered with big data or else big data is just another buzzword. […]