This 2 Day Stock Market Crash Was Larger Than Any 1 Day Stock Market Crash In U.S. History
By Michael Snyder, on August 21st, 2015We witnessed something truly historic happen on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 530 points, and that followed a 358 point crash on Thursday. When you add those two days together, the total two day […]
E-commerce platform Shopify began trading above $28 a share, up from the $17 per share price the company originally set last night.The company put up 7.7 million shares of stock for sale this morning (NYSE: SHOP), allowing it to generate well over the $100 million it originally planned to raise, according to its S-1 SEC filing.Shopify is a plug-and-play e-commerce solution that gives merchants the tools […]
Wall Street maintains its historic and decidedly un-PC traditions this week with shortened trading hours on Good Friday. Here are the details.On Friday night, the Matins of Holy and Great Saturday, a unique service known as The Lamentation at the Tomb (Epitáphios Thrēnos) is celebrated. (Photo via Wikipedia, of Greek Orthodox ceremony)CLEVELAND, March 31, 2015 − It’s been refreshing up here in […]
Get those trades done before you head out to grandma’s. (Via Wikipedia)WASHINGTON, December 23, 2014 – As a public service, we’re listing dates, times and settlement dates for U.S. and Canadian holiday trading hour from today through the New Year’s holiday.Those trading on international exchanges during the holidays: your mileage may vary. Whether trading on US, Canadian or international markets, […]
General Electric – a literal powerhouse of a corporation involved in virtually every area of industry, has been laying the foundations of what it grandly calls the Industrial Internet for some time now.But what exactly is it? In this post I will try and give a basic overview of the ideas which they are hoping will transform industry, and how […]
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Researchers from Boston University and Warwick Business School have found a way to identify what people are Google searching right before […]
When will the stock market crash? As with most everything else, the answer lies within Google.In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Warwick Business School and Boston University have created a method to identify search terms that precede a stock market crash.To help algorithms identify these patterns, the research team categorized every […]
George Dyson. Credit: edge.orgIf you read about Big Data for very long, a quote from science historian George Dyson is sure to come up: “Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away.”That will be a platform to talk about the challenges, etc.But there is a bigger problem that […]
The MLB draft is coming up and with any luck I’ll get this posted by Thursday and take advantage of web traffic. I can hope! (ed. note: nope) Anyway, Tuesday on FanGraphs I read a fascinating portrayal of the draft process, laying out the nuts and bolts of how organizations scout for the draft. The piece, written by Tony Blengino (whose essays are rapidly […]
I am going to take a brief look at a few revolutionary technologies – all Black Swan events, to hopefully give you a sense that great stock market bubbles typically involve a Black Swan technological breakthrough, which has broad implications spanning across many different industries. The new technology is always incredibly important, and because it was unexpected and because market […]
