The hotly anticipated stock-market debut of Twitter exceeded expectations on Thursday when a stampede for shares sent the company’s value to more than $24bn – an extraordinary debut for a company that has never made a profit, and whose launch had already been the subject of considerable hype.The company set a share price of $26 on Tuesday but fierce bidding […]
Eric Gaillard/ReutersTwitter has done everything in its power to be the anti-Facebook, as far as its IPO is concerned.
It’s going public while it’s still in hyper-growth mode, unlike Facebook.
It’s listing on the NYSE instead of the NASDAQ.
It’s setting a low price range for the IPO, giving investors an opportunity to grab a big upside.
It filed for “secret” IPO.
And […]
Morning technical analysis – 6 November 2013November 6, 2013 by Craig Erlam in Technical analysisEURUSDThe euro is trading higher this morning, after finding support once again around 1.3450 yesterday. The pair also failed to close below the 50 fib level again, confirming both of these levels as major levels of support. Given that the recent sell-off in the euro is […]
“The bull case, which I also understand, is that you take the market caps of Wal-Mart, Netflix, Salesforce, roll them all together—boom, that’s what you’re going to get,” he said. “The bear case is that, hey, this is a commodity retailer, and a commodity-retail play margin is about 5 percent,” Gillis said. “If you look […]
HedgeChatter: Twitter IPO and the Increasing Role of Social Media in the Stock Market
Ronald Barba
Sep 17, 2013
In April, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 150 points after a specious tweet made by The Associated Press claimed that an explosion at the White House caused injuries to President Obama. The tweet was quickly marked as fake, and the Dow stabilized after three minutes, but […]
Speculation is flying this week as Apple gears up to make its much-anticipated announcement on Tuesday, September 10. Will iPhones come in new colors? Will there be a low-cost version? Will it scan your fingerprints?
We won’t know for sure until tomorrow. But for Apple shareholders, those questions are minor details compared to the real issue: Will the new iPhone sell?
This […]
Brands’ Social Mentions Gradually Turning Positive in the USJuly 29, 2013 by MarketingCharts staffBrand conversations are on the rise on Twitter, and Twitter users who mention brands have an increasingly amplified voice. While the social space no doubt heightens the opportunity for good PR, bad news can also spread like wildfire. (Recent research suggests that bad customer service interactions are […]
In 2012, Facebook and Twitter boasted a combined user base of more than 1.5 billion users. With over 25 billion Tweets and 30 billion shared statuses a month on Facebook, social media has transformed how people share information. There is no area of society more affected by the rise of social media than large enterprises. Traditional advertising and public relations […]
Our API directory now includes 22 sentiment APIs. The newest is the Bitcoin Sentiment API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Klout API. We list 7 Klout mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of sentiment APIs.In terms of the technical details, REST and JSON lead the way. There are […]
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I talk to Social Market Analytics founder Joe Gits about using Twitter Sentiment for Investments and their “secret sauce” which makes their platform effective.By Gregory Piatetsky, May 28, 2013.
Trading on Twitter sentiment is not a new idea.
It was pioneered on a serious scale in Johan Bollen et al paper
Twitter […]
