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How to Play This Flat Stock Market :: The Market Oracle :: Financial …

How to Play This Flat Stock MarketStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 31, 2014 – 04:39 PM GMTBy: Investment_U

Alexander Green writes: More than a few investors are scratching their heads over the Dow’s performance so far in 2014.It stumbled out of the gate in January and February, then rallied from March through mid-April, then gave up the ghost […]

How Not to Be Scared by the Stock Market :: The Market Oracle …

How Not to Be Scared by the Stock MarketStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 29, 2014 – 04:33 PM GMTBy: Investment_U

Marc Lichtenfeld writes: I sat there in stunned silence. We were having dinner with our friends, when the husband told us he doesn’t invest. “I don’t trust the markets,” he said. He keeps all of his savings in […]

Who watches the watchers? Big Data goes unchecked

Politico reports: The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.
Commercial data brokers know if you have diabetes. Your electric company can see what time you come home at night. And tracking companies can tell where you go on weekends by snapping photos of your car’s license plate […]

No reason for these stock market jitters | Anatole Kaletsky

“Sell in May and go away.”This stock market adage has served investors well four years in a row. Every year since 2010, stock markets around the world have suffered significant corrections between a high reached in May and a low in the summer or early autumn: by 15 percent in 2010, 19 percent in 2011, 9 percent in 2012 and […]

No reason for these stock market jitters | Anatole Kaletsky – Reuters

“Sell in May and go away.”This stock market adage has served investors well four years in a row. Every year since 2010, stock markets around the world have suffered significant corrections between a high reached in May and a low in the summer or early autumn: by 15 percent in 2010, 19 percent in 2011, 9 percent in 2012 and […]

Summary of White House Big Data Privacy Report: 'Give Feds More …

Credit: JD Hancock / photo on flickrIn January, the Obama
administration put together a “working group” to analyze how huge
swaths of Americans’ data are being gathered and stored and what
sort of privacy issues need to be addressed. The group’s report was
just released this week.Before you ask: No, it’s not about the National Security Agency
(NSA) sweeping up huge amounts of metadata from […]

Stocks fall sharply; Amazon, tech shares drop | Stock market | The …

Originally published April 25, 2014 at 6:38 AM | Page modified April 26, 2014 at 9:56 PM

NEW YORK — The stock market fell sharply Friday, dragged down by disappointing quarterly results from Amazon and Ford. Escalating tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine also weighed on the market.Worried investors sold their risky assets and moved into the […]

What Big Data Can't Tell Us About Health Care : The New Yorker

Jean Malouin, a family doctor in Michigan, woke up one morning earlier this month to an e-mail from a Washington Post reporter, who informed her that a vast release of Medicare payment data from 2012 had identified her as the highest female biller in the country, and the seventeenth-highest over all, with more than seven million dollars in payments. Malouin […]