Richard Drew / APTrader Frank O’Connell works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.The stock market is getting a little bumpy as the government shutdown wears on, but if Congress pushes a deadline on the federal debt limit in two weeks, you can buckle up for something much scarier — maybe even a replay of the […]
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Part two of an interview series with Mark Braunstein, Director of the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech, and columnist at InformationWeek. A decade or so ago only a very few professionals used the term Logistics, yet it very quickly moved from an IT and Operations handle into the boardroom. Dr. Braunstein explains how data logistics […]
Q&A: How Market Participants are Using Social MediaDec 23, 2013 ||
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Social media is becoming a critical listening post for investors and traders who are looking for early signals on market direction. The volume of traffic on networks such as Facebook and Twitter is enormous and growing, and these larger data sets lend themselves to more meaningful analysis.Facebook has […]
A recent Bipartisan Policy Center report, titled “A Policy Forum on the Use of Big Data in Health Care“, suggests that HIPAA is a burden on healthcare organizations that are trying to innovate and maximize the value of patient big data. But how likely are changes to HIPAA and what should healthcare focus on in the near future to use […]
SharePinterestFacebookEmailFollowing last week’s revelations concerning President Obama’s broken promises about the benefits of Obamacare, the president’s poll numbers have fallen dramatically.But has the president seen the same blowback on social media? Using the analytics tool Crimson Hexagon, we tracked the sentiment surrounding Obamacare over the last week.Of the 8,869 relevant social media posts, support for the president’s healthcare law has […]
When Nick Lemann’s New Yorker profile of SEC chair Mary Jo White came out, Felix took issue with this assertion:In 2000, the S.E.C. permitted stocks to be traded in pennies or fractions of pennies, rather than the customary eighths or thirty-seconds of a dollar. That made it easier for traders to make money by placing very large orders for very small variances […]
Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in collaboration with the Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) program hosted Data to Knowledge to Action: Building New Partnerships. The event was a progress report of sorts on the Obama Administration’s “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” announced in 2012.OSTP Director John Holdren opened the event stressing the […]
From a trader’s point of view, there is one commodity that is worth infinitesimally more than any other. And it’s not cutting-edge technology, advanced technical analysis, or profound macroeconomic insight – although these are undoubtedly hugely valuable – it’s information.Not just any information – after all, the world is filled with more information than even the most powerful computers could hope […]
Mark Lennihan/APBy Jed Horowitz, Lauren Tara LaCapra and Herbert LashNEW YORK — Thirty minutes into the crippling outage that hobbled the Nasdaq stock market Thursday afternoon, stopping all trading in $5.9 trillion worth of U.S. equities, exchange officials had the problem fixed.It was another 2½ hours, however, before they were ready to flip the switch and turn the all-electronic […]
