(Phys.org) —Humans have a strong tendency to belong to a group, an instinct that often manifests in herding behavior. Not limited to humans, herding exists throughout nature, for example in ant colonies, schools of fish, and flocks of birds. But what about the stock market?
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Professor Jeremy Siegel thinks it is.His most recent call is that the stock market as a whole is selling for 10-15% less than it should. Fed chairman Janet Yellen in recent testimony didn’t say it was cheap, but she thought it wasn’t very expensive either.Are they right?Consider this. If you compare the price to the corporate earnings, as Yellen said […]
How Do Net Current Asset Value Stocks Perform When Buffett’s Favorite Valuation Indicator is Expensive By: Victor Wendl | Tue, Jun 3, 2014 SharePrintEmailWarren Buffett, a former student and employee of value-investing pioneer Benjamin
Graham, commented recently on how expensive the overall stock market is currently.
One of the metrics Buffett uses to describe the valuation of stocks […]
Data scientists shouldn’t have to spend the majority of their time doing grunt work: getting data ready for the analysis that could really make a difference for their employers. They should be able to come up with cool new ideas worth evaluating. No wonder investors are jumping all over software that automates parts of the data-cleaning workflow.Today, one of the […]
Web services companies, such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft, all make promises about how they will use personal information they gather. But ensuring that millions of lines of code in their systems operate in ways consistent with privacy promises is labor-intensive and difficult. A team from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research, however, has shown these compliance checks can be […]
Strategic Investment Conference: Day 3 – Stock Market Due for a Correction?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 18, 2014 – 08:34 PM GMTBy: John_Mauldin
By Worth WrayGood morning from 30,000 feet, somewhere over the great American West!I admit to being a little overwhelmed as I write to you on my way home from the Strategic Investment Conference. […]
The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.Commercial data brokers know if you have diabetes. Your electric company can see what time you come home at night. And tracking companies can tell where you go on weekends by snapping photos of your car’s license plate and cataloging […]
SummaryA new paper by Claude Erb notes that over time the beta, size and value premiums have all declined.
The paper questions whether or not the trades are too crowded with investors demanding too much from a limited supply.
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Here is a new update of a popular market valuation method using the most recent Standard & Poor’s “as reported” earnings and earnings estimates and the index monthly averages of daily closes for the past month, which is 1,864.26. The ratios in parentheses use the monthly close of 1,883.95. For the earnings, see the table below created from Standard […]
Regulators, private investors outpaced by algorithmic stock trading by Jim Patterson | Posted on Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2014 — 11:44 AMHigh-speed algorithms have so revolutionized the design and functioning of our stock markets that they are quickly tearing up the rulebook in how these markets are regulated, according to a Vanderbilt Law School researcher.“Algorithms able to execute tens of thousands […]
