Originally published April 17, 2014 at 6:36 AM | Page modified April 18, 2014 at 6:33 AM
Corporate earnings pushed U.S. stocks mostly higher on Thursday, but it wasn’t an easy ride up.The stock market appeared set in the morning for its fourth consecutive positive open, but immediately turned negative as investors sold shares in Google and IBM. The […]
Business Insider/Matthew Boesler (data from Bloomberg)Chart 1.Bespoke Investment Group presents a variant of the above chart in a blog post on its website: America’s share of world market capitalization has dropped sharply since around March 20, mirroring the rise that occurred over the preceding month.To what extent is this a U.S. story as opposed to a rest-of-the-world story?The next chart […]
Internet giants to government: We can spy on customers’ data, you shouldn’t
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Benchmarks snapped a four-day winning streak and ended lower on Thursday as investors adopted a wait and watch approach ahead of Friday’s nonfarm payroll data. Economic data came in mixed, hardly impacting the cautious stance of investors. These reports included better service sector data, higher weekly jobless claims and an increase in the U.S. trade deficit. Declines in bio-tech […]
Even though Canadian trader Brad Katsuyama had found the elusive answers to a question that baffled even the most powerful Wall Street investors, he had a tough time, at first, even getting a meeting in the executive offices of one of the top financial firms in the United States.The Markham, Ont.-native worked in the Manhattan offices of the Royal Bank […]
Benchmarks ended lower on Thursday as investors feared sooner-than-expected rate hikes. Incidentally, the concerns emerged after the day’s mixed economic reports on fourth quarter GDP and weekly unemployment benefits. Declines in financial and technology stocks also dragged the markets lower. Eventually, the S&P 500 fell below the key technical level of 1,850 and the Nasdaq dropped to its lowest […]
Google Flu Trends, once a poster child for the power of big-data analysis, seems to be under attack.This month, in a Science magazine article, four quantitatively adept social scientists reported that Google’s flu-tracking service not only wildly overestimated the number of flu cases in the United States in the 2012-13 flu season — a well-known miss — but has also […]
Stock Market Testing Resistance At Former HighStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Mar 24, 2014 – 10:55 AM GMTBy: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the MarketSPX: Very Long-term trend – The very-long-term cycles are in their down phases, and if they make their lows when expected (after this bull market is over), there will be another steep decline into […]
The U.S. spent $5 billion dollars on overthrowing the Ukraine government and it succeeds. Crimea makes up about 10% of the land mass of Ukraine. So the U.S. government got 90% of Ukraine by overthrowing the elected government while Russia got just 10% of the land mass from free elections in Crimea, and the U.S. government has the audacity to […]
Imagine a map that shows years of rising sea levels in a matter of seconds, and the water is surrounding your house. There might soon be an app for that.
That’s the sort of visualization that the Obama administration believes can spark action toward climate adaptation in communities around the nation. To help push technologists to create these new climate tools, […]
