Benchmarks settled in the red zone following reports that Russia has increased forces along its border with Ukraine. Investors’ apprehensions about a rate hike following strong economic data also weighed on markets. Dow’s three-digit decline eroded all of Monday’s gains, while fellow benchmarks also lost heavily.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s […]
Gains in financial and small-cap stocks helped benchmarks shrug off initial losses to end in the green. Stocks had opened in the red owing to dismal housing data. However, improved consumer price data firmed up the US dollar, also leading to expectations of a rate hike. Markets secured their third-straight positive finish on a day when the two-day FOMC […]
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]]>Big data is coming to the rescue in stopping fraud in wire transfers, according to Western Union’s chief information officer.David Thompson, CIO and executive vice president of global operations and technology, said in a fireside chat at VentureBeat’s DataBeat 2014 conference that the company has to tap massive databases to sort through customer information and figure out the […]
The economic benefits of big data are no longer just hype—but many developing economies are set to miss out on them, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum.Data sets are “a new form of asset class,” which, with the right analysis, can be translated into economic wealth, say the authors of the 13th Global Information Technology Report. […]
Russia’s stock market is one of the cheapest in the world. As the conflict with Ukraine drags on — or escalates — it will only get cheaper.This isn’t a temporary correction or a short-term aberration. Russian shares will continue to be volatile, and nimble traders could do quite well if they take advantage of that. But to the detriment of […]
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Overview:USD/JPY is expected to consolidate with bearish bias after hitting […]
Vladimir Putin’s decision to try to seize Crimea from Ukraine may make nationalists happy, but investors — Russian or otherwise — are getting clobbered. Russian stocks have been in a tailspin since mid-February with the Micex — the benchmark index of the Moscow Stock Exchange — falling nearly 17% since then. It was off nearly 2% on Thursday after opening […]
Here the weekly multi market technical analysis from the award winning Swiss team.First up, although they see the likelihood of a possible near term extension to 1885 on the sp500 they are in the “take profit” camp here in the near term across extended sectors and indexes like the Hangseng and Euro indexes.‘All eyes to the Shanghai’ which is showing […]
Lately, small regional and community bank stocks have been written on as the ‘Trade of the Decade. ‘
In the aftermath of the real estate and credit crisis, bank stocks collapsed in value and many of the smaller ones were valued at a fraction of their tangible book value. As regulators rushed to close the barn door (after the horse got […]
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