Source: Flickr user Allan Ajifo .Picking winning stocks isn’t easy, especially in biotechnology where the ebb and flow of news tied to drug trials can cause breathtaking share price pops and drops. Although that means that biotech stocks can be risky, the right knowledge can help improve the odds of finding the right investment. We asked three Motley Fool analysts […]
So you’ve decided to become involved in the stock market but don’t really know where to start? Well first off, congratulations! The stock market is a great investment that can pay off huge when done right! Now remember, the first step is always the hardest in anything you do so we have put together a list of three fantastic ways […]
William Patalon IIIWhen I earned my MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) back in the mid-1990s, my focus was finance and investing.But it was a management professor who clued me in to some of the best ways to “look past the numbers” and understand what really makes a big company tick.The professor, Janet C. Barnard, retired a few […]
While Coach was far and away the best performer in the study, two other names that aren’t the first that come to mind when thinking “Black Friday rush” also were also among the consistent winners: Lowe’s and Home Depot.”You’ve got a ton of people about to travel to your house for the holidays so you need it to look good,” […]
Abnormal Returns posted a few particularly good links yesterday; check out the study of how returns early in the market day predict those later in the day. I’ll have more to say about that topic later this weekend, as it dovetails nicely with recent observations regarding who is participating in markets. Also worth a read is Adam Grimes’ post regarding […]
By Zhicheng Liu*and Jeffrey Heer, University of WashingtonOne acknowledged benefit of using visualizations to explore data is to support interactive analysis at the speed of thought: starting from a visual overview of the data, analysts can interactively drill down, filter and change encoding to examine the data from different perspectives.When dealing with large volumes of data, the time taken for query processing, […]
A group of British researchers believe they can harness the power of Wikipedia and Google searches to predict whether the economy’s going to go up or down.The research comes just a few months after Google Search’s Big Data was dismissed as a predictive tool, following reports that Google Flu Trends was well off the mark when it came to guessing […]
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Researchers from Boston University and Warwick Business School have found a way to identify what people are Google searching right before […]
When will the stock market crash? As with most everything else, the answer lies within Google.In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Warwick Business School and Boston University have created a method to identify search terms that precede a stock market crash.To help algorithms identify these patterns, the research team categorized every […]
