BIG DATA is coming at us at the speed of light in petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes, very soon in yottabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). The amount of data that is being generated is exploding like never before. And within that data lies valuable insights, new ideas that will could transform and solve business problems and provide new business opportunities.The potential of big Data […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. had many dreams. A unifier and peaceful warrior whose warmth and strength made him a compelling leader, he may also have foreseen the future— as we know it today—while writing his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, which was published nearly half a century ago. With our current social systems in […]
In the long-run, earnings are without question the most important drivers of stock market returns.Dividends, which are a usually financed with earnings, are another big driver of total returns.In the short-run, however, returns can be effected tremendously by swings in the premium investors are willing to pay for those earnings. This is reflected by an expanding or contracting […]
Stock Market Down for 1st Trading Day of January in 6 Years – Getting Tougher…Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jan 04, 2014 – 12:00 AM GMTBy: Sy_Harding
The bulls had a rare experience this week. The market was actually down on the first day of the new year. Something that hadn’t happened in six years. They also had to […]
With all the hype around Big Data, one of the most pressing concerns for organizations is finding qualified data scientists who’re able to translate that mish-mash of numbers into something that makes sense – actual insights that can be used to pursue businesses’ goals and strategies.The opportunities for data scientists are said to be enormous, mainly because there aren’t enough […]
Most investment books aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Authors who have never experienced real investment success espouse the conventional wisdom: index funds, blue chips, buy and hold, etc…Every once in a while, however, there is a true gem: Reminisces Of A Stock Operator, My Story by Bernard Baruch, How To Make Money In Stocks by William O’Neil, No […]
