William Patalon IIIWhen I earned my MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) back in the mid-1990s, my focus was finance and investing.But it was a management professor who clued me in to some of the best ways to “look past the numbers” and understand what really makes a big company tick.The professor, Janet C. Barnard, retired a few […]
Big Data, a.k.a. Alan Wilkis, spends a lot of time thinking about heavy stuff, like the erosion of our privacy and how companies and the government exploit it. That admittedly paranoid worldview permeates pretty much everything he makes—including his song “Dangerous” and its hysterically gory video.Related Hear 10 songs Joey Bada$$ is feeling right nowOn the other hand, he’s also a pretty hardcore […]
It’s part of the daily routine by now: the S&P 500 index rose to another all-time high. We’ve been confronted with this miracle for a long time. The last correction when the index dropped over 10% was, well, if anyone can even remember, in 2011. And it shows.Every single bearish call on the S&P 500 has been punished with a […]
Even professional traders and investors can’t always speak the language of colleagues working in a different segment of the financial world. With that in mind, we’ve introduced this weekly column, looking at one esoteric or potentially misunderstood finance or trading term every week. After bringing you “carry trade,” “contango,” and “reflation” in past columns, we’ll now focus on a term […]
Welcome to our daily roundup of top insider trades. Here’s a look at the most significant inside purchases recently filed with the SEC.Notable Purchases:
Bill Gross, co-founder of Pimco, bought 87,848 shares of the non-diversified, closed-end management investment company Pimco Dynamic Income Fund (NYSE:PDI) for $2,754,606.
Lloyd Frink, a director at online and mobile platform for restaurant pickup and delivery orders GrubHub (NYSE:GRUB), bought 77,000 […]
Welcome to our daily roundup of top insider trades. Here’s a look at the most significant inside purchases recently filed with the SEC.Notable Purchases:
Mark Rachesky, a director at commercial and military truck company Navistar International (NYSE:NAV), bought 911,774 shares of company stock for $30,206,736.
Bill Gross, co-founder of Pimco, bought 100,000 shares of the non-diversified, closed-end management investment company Pimco Dynamic Credit […]
CNBC screenshotBrad Katsuyama and Bill O’BrienTwo CEOs of exchanges got in a nasty brawl on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” over high-frequency trading.
William “Bill” O’Brien, the CEO of BATS, slammed Brad Katsuyama, the CEO and president of IEX, and author Michael Lewis.Katsuyama is the hero in Michael Lewis’ new book, “Flash Boys.” His firm, IEX, is an alternative exchange. “I’ve been […]
This is the end.The market is rolling over. Pain and pestilence await all investors.At least, that’s how it feels after Friday’s drubbing. Stocks took some serious punishment. Relentless selling pushed the S&P 500 down more than 2% on the day.But in reality, our perspective is way off. The market has been much too agreeable over the past year or so. […]
LONDON, January 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ –Sentiment, (the trading name of Macranet Ltd), the social intelligence and engagement platform, announced today it has secured £1 million in a Series A financing led by Elderstreet Investments, with participation from AIM listed technology company Netcall plc. The funding will accelerate the company’s growth strategy.Sentiment will use the financing to increase investment in its […]
The Big Data landscape continued to explode in 2013, as companies across the board scrambled to update infrastructure and technology to meet the new set of demands and opportunities brought on by a brave new, data-happy world. Investors responded in kind, pouring just over $3.6 billion into the Big Data ecosystem during the year, setting off a flurry of activity […]
