The question of the day is relatively straightforward at this time: Will we see a meaningful decline (defined as a loss of -10 percent or more) on the S&P 500 in the near term or not?From the bears’ perspective, the answer is an unequivocal “yes.” Our furry friends cite the ongoing mo-mo meltdown [Social Media (SOCL), Internet (FDN), and Biotech […]
European Stock Markets Cliff Ahead?Stock-Markets / European Stock MarketsApr 30, 2014 – 09:15 PM GMTBy: John_Mauldin
By Dirk Steinhoff(This article originally appeared in World Money Analyst)When Kevin Brekke, managing editor [of World Money Analyst], contacted me last week, I knew it was time again to survey the investment landscape. This month, I will focus on Europe […]
Emil Protalinski15 April ’14, 11:13pm FollowGoogle today expanded its Google Finance product to cover stocks in Spain, Poland, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina. As a result, you can now easily follow the performance of indices, stock price movements, trading volumes, and so on for the stock market in those five countries with just a simple Google search.Today’s addition means […]
The S&P 500 has just hit a new all-time high at 1851.55 this morning.The previous peak was on January 15, when the index hit 1850.84. After that, the market fell 6% through February 3. Since then, it has surged higher, erasing all of those losses and then some.This morning, the index is up 0.8%, trading above 1851.The chart below shows […]
Cameron Spencer/Getty ImagesEMERGING stockmarkets go in and out of fashion. They were battered during the Asian and Russian crises of the late 1990s, but then recovered to offer double-digit annual returns in the first decade of the 21st century. Since 2010, however, they have reverted to underperforming their developed-country rivals.The arguments in favour of investing in emerging markets are the […]
5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)**************************************************************************************************http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/*******************************************************BACKGROUND*******************************************************Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP), has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that made it possible […]
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INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT
Special Issue on
Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media
AIMS AND SCOPE
Although sentiment analysis and emotion detection have been trending topics since a while, not enough emphasis has been placed so far on social and expressive media. The latter, in particular, play a key role in applicative fields related to creativity, its expressions and […]
ES³LOD 2014
5th International Workshop on
EMOTION, SOCIAL SIGNALS, SENTIMENT & LINKED OPEN DATA
Satellite of LREC 2014, ELRA, 1.5 Day Workshop on 26/27 May 2014
Reykjavik, Iceland
http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/es3lod
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The fifth instalment of the highly successful series of Corpora for Research
on Emotion held at the last LRECs (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) will help
bridging the gap between research on human emotion, social signals and
sentiment from speech, text, […]
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Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP), has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that made […]
Everyone wants to be ahead of the market. If you can predict it, you can own it – making millions in the process.We might not be able to predict the stock market yet, but Twitter is sure helping us along. According to a new study, reading into the patterns within Twitter chatter might be able to predict trends in […]
