China is taking a one-two punch to the gut as the nation’s previously high-flying economy begins to weaken. First, the stock market there is suddenly collapsing after a major boom. Then just as things are looking bad, the auto industry posted its first sales drop in over two years.According to Bloomberg, citing figures from the China Passenger Car Association, vehicles […]
Stock-market investing in Britain is done mainly by professionals such as fund managers, folks trusted with other people’s money because of their increased understanding of investing. It’s the same way in the US, though Americans are more likely than Brits to maintain a small portfolio of stocks in which they have a personal interest.But millions of ordinary citizens in China […]
REUTERS/Bobby YipDespite bouncing back today, Chinese stock markets have been in crisis and banks are warning that if efforts to put a floor under the market don’t stick then the turmoil could get as bad as the US crash in 2008 and the debt crisis in Europe in 2012.The main Shanghai Composite collapsed over 30% in the last month, despite repeated attempts by the government to […]
CHENGDU — The Shanghai stock market has been one wild ride for the last few months. The world has watched as stocks soared for months before a precipitous plunge in recent weeks. Millions of “novice investors” got involved in the markets when prices dramatically increased last year, the Associated Press reported.So what do normal Chinese people think about the roller […]
E-pocalypse now: Airline, stock exchange hit by computer glitchesPublished time: July 08, 2015 23:56Get short URLReuters / Chip EastTagsHacking, Information Technology, Modernization, Politics, Security, USAUnited Airlines was writing boarding passes by hand before stopping all flights for three hours. Then the New York Stock Exchange halted all trades, citing a mysterious “technical glitch.” It wasn’t a cyberattack, US officials said […]
Get the newsLog In or Subscribe to skip3Share This Story!Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutNYSE resumes trading after nearly 4 hour haltAll trading on the New York Stock Exchange is halted Wednesday for unknown internal technical reasons – heaping yet another worry onto investors already rattled by global economic concerns.##Sent!A link has been sent […]
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I wake up from my whiskey stupor to the scent of burning motherboards, and I know that something is wrong. Out the window in New York’s Financial District, two men in torn bespoke suits roast a body over an oil drum. It looks like Thomas Friedman’s, but I […]
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Numenta today released Grok for Stocks, a new mobile application that tracks the trading patterns of companies in […]
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD) Stock Update by Bidness ETC : Wednesday 11:44:23 CTCategories: News, streamGilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) has had an unimpressive month so far, which is unusual for a stock that happens to be one of the most traded biotech stocks in the market. The company’s stock has actually traded down 1.67% since the beginning of July, reaching a […]
Technical glitches this morning are raising homeland security concerns. Though it is not yet clear if the events are related, two separate technical incidents have led to problems in the computer systems that control stock market trading on the NYSE and automation on airlines owned by United.At 11:30 AM Eastern time the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) halted trading after reports that […]
