Benchmarks ended lower on Tuesday on reports of a decline in consumer confidence in February and dismal US home prices data. However, the retail sector gained on the back of Home Depot and Macy’s better-than-expected earnings reports. Overall, it was a choppy session with benchmarks entering the positive zone at noon but failing to hold on to gains.For a look […]
Merger and acquisition activities and a rally in health insurers took benchmarks to their record highs on Monday. A buoyant German confidence report also had a positive impact on the markets. The benchmarks ended in the green with the S&P 500 briefly reaching its all-time high. The Nasdaq ended the day at a fourteen-year high.For a look at the issues […]
GoGrid simplifies moving to big data”Enterprises are eager to evaluate and implement the latest Big Data solutions, but until now, they haven’t had the resources to do so quickly and easily,” says GoGrid CEO John Keagy. “GoGrid’s new 1-Button Deploy solution, combined with our Open Data Services platform, offers companies immediate access to the most advanced technologies on […]
I am excited to be presenting in New York at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium. My talk is titled, “Measure and Predict: Lessons in Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty.” Customer satisfaction and loyalty are important variables in today’s business world. Senior executives rely on measures of these variables to make better decisions to help them market to, sell to and service their customers.
Businesses have access to droves […]
Brokers balked at a stock exchange study that could lead to the introduction of circuit breakers to protect against flash trading of stocks – which can send shares gyrating wildly – saying Hong Kong has adequate suspension rules in place already.Securities and Futures Commission executive director Keith Lui told the South China Morning Post last week that the SFC supports […]
A “dark pool” may sound like a mysterious water source or an untapped oil well. In reality, it’s a finance term: Dark pools are privately run stock markets that do not show participants’ orders to the public before trades happen. They are a growing presence in stock trading, now representing at least one-eighth, and possibly much more, of all stock […]
Lojko: social media mattersHelping traders to understand input from social media can be a key differentiating factor, according to Albert Lojko, head of content strategy, data management and delivery at Thomson Reuters.Lojko previously worked at online trading company Tradeweb, where he was involved in building the site’s trading platform. He joined Thomson Reuters and began work on its Eikon trading […]
Strong fourth quarter initial GDP numbers and Facebook’s earnings results helped benchmarks return to their winning ways. In fact, the S&P 500 scored its biggest jump in more than a month and that has put the index on course to post weekly gains. Facebook’s gains also helped push the technology sector higher and it emerged as one of the top […]
Understand the business value in “human data” – emotion, intent, connection – in online, social, and enterprise sources via text, speech, video and social-network analytics. Early bird till Jan 31 + KDnuggets discount.By Seth Grimes, Jan 28, 2014.
I wanted to make sure you know about the next Sentiment Analysis Symposium, March 5-6, 2014 in New York. The […]
President Obama has named the people who will help John Podesta accomplish this task.I have also asked my Counselor, John Podesta, to lead a comprehensive review of big data and privacy. This group will consist of government officials who—along with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology—will reach out to privacy experts, technologists and business leaders, and look […]
