Summer doldrums drivel:+ It’s a “stockpickers” market now. That means the market is about to fall big time.+ Yields are rising. When muni bond yields hit 5%, investors will flee equities and load up on bonds, especially investors in high-tax states like New York and California.+ No deal for Greece spells stocks will fall. (At least today.)+ Everyone is at […]
U.S. indexes were in the red all day today as some quite miserable economic data didn’t do the normal trick of making everyone happy because it means the Federal Reserve will never raise rates in our lives. The S&P 500 fell 0.37% and the NASDAQ 0.63%. The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee released its meeting statement on Wednesday afternoon that […]
Global benchmark Brent crude oil closed down nearly a dollar a barrel Friday after a day of choppy trading despite expectations of new investments in the new year, as strong mid-day rallies in crude fizzled.Brent crude was down 91 cents at $56.42 a barrel. Earlier, it touched a post-2009 low of $55.48, having averaged around $110 a barrel between 2011 […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Concerns over weaker global growth appeared to overshadow strong reports about the U.S. economy Tuesday, nudging the stock market to a tiny loss.Crude prices sank 3 percent, pulling down stocks of oil producers. Small-companies, which have fewer ties to the world economy, made gains. Meanwhile, the dollar reached a one-year high against the euro.”It’s the picture […]
August 29, 2014
12 Big Data Facts for Marketers in 2014
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FNV Franco Nevada Precious Metal Royalty Company – Leading Stock Trading At All Time Highsby Olivier on August 14, 2014Almost 2 years ago FNV – Franco Nevada was trading near its all time high and I wrote the following post: FNV – Franco Nevada Leading Precious Metal Stock. Today we have almost the exact same situation. FNV is the strongest big […]
Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from Aviva, Canadian Imperial Bank, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and University Health Network on day 2 of Big Data Innovation Summit 2014. By Anmol Rajpurohit, @hey_anmol, Aug 7, 2014.As many organizations are now working with unmanageably large data sets, the importance of using and maintaining an analytics platform which […]
Even though Canadian trader Brad Katsuyama had found the elusive answers to a question that baffled even the most powerful Wall Street investors, he had a tough time, at first, even getting a meeting in the executive offices of one of the top financial firms in the United States.The Markham, Ont.-native worked in the Manhattan offices of the Royal Bank […]
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Saga is pondering a stock market float. Photograph: AlamySaga has given its clearest indication yet that it intends to float part of the business on the Stock Exchange later this year by asking customers whether they’d be interested in buying shares.The group, which specialises in providing financial services and travel to the over-50s, sent out an email this week to […]
