The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can’t beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com’s $390 million desires is the scrappy startup RelateIQ, which uses searches of unstructured data from email, social networks, and calendars to automate large portions of the sales process.The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company raised a significant $40 million round earlier […]
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichterThe S&P 500 stock index bumbles to new highs no matter what. But it has been a slog: serial GDP downward revisions forward and backward, unceremonious abandonment of “escape velocity” for the fifth year in a row, wars or civil wars in Ukraine and Iraq with consequences for gas supplies to Europe and […]
Thomson ReutersGolf: U.S Open-Practice RoundGolf star Phil Mickelson was not involved in insider trading in the shares of Clorox Co when billionaire investor Carl Icahn was attempting an unsolicited takeover of the consumer products company in 2011, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the probe.
Clorox was among the stocks that U.S. authorities were examining as part of […]
Stock Market Summer Sell-off ScenarioStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 11, 2014 – 06:57 AM GMTBy: Clif_Droke
One of the most salient features of the market environment of recent months is the evolution of investor psychology. From March through May, stocks experienced a classic internal correction in which the most overbought and overvalued stocks declined while […]
Read More’Sell in May’-is it on or off?: Kenny Polcari Michael Hartnett, chief market strategist at BofAML, believes an improving macro environment coupled with high cash levels and diminishing geopolitical threats will lead to an “irrational exuberance” run that will catch fire during the summer. The best trades, Hartnett said in a note, will […]
Stock Market on the Brink of a Sharp Correction? Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 12, 2014 – 09:19 AM GMTBy: Toby_Connor
In today’s post I’m going to make the case for stocks moving down into a sharp correction over the next 4 weeks. To begin we need to examine the last two intermediate cycles. Normally an intermediate cycle […]
We learned that a Honda Odyssey with all seats including front removed, holds exactly 41 bags of insulation.Well, I’m almost done that house I have been rebuilding since last fall. There was a big push through the electrical and insulation stages, and then I happily handed the place off to Agustin and his crew for drywall*, which is now in […]
U.S. GDP growth is expected to be greater than 3% this summer, which would mark the end of a run of mid-year soft patches and potentially open the door for a longer period of growth in the 3% range.If the 10-year U.S. treasury yield can stay under 3.25% this summer against the backdrop of stronger growth, Deutsche Bank strategist David […]
As part of this year’s Strata Conf. in Santa Clara, titled “Making Data Work”, David Epstein, Senior Writer with Sports Illustrated, delivered a Keynote which aimed to explain the role of “Small Data in Sports” and how “Little Differences Mean Big Outcomes.”“I want to talk about high performance in sports and what makes the difference between a top performer and […]
Over
to Greece where the country’s leading economic think tank, IOBE, has
not ruled out national output contracting for a seventh
straight year in 2014. Helena Smith in Athens writes:Releasing its quarterly review earlier today, IOBE was unequivocal: in 2014 the recession-hit Greek economy would finally bottom out, it said, but in sharp contrast to official forecasts it could not […]
