Yanis Varoufakis has just released a statement defending his work creating a parallel payment system during his time as finance minister.The statement, from “the Office of Yanis Varoufakis”, insists that he was fully authorised to carry out the work.It also criticises the media for their “far-fetched” articles, and denies the claim that he ever planned to hijack all taxpayers tax […]
Stock Market Cycle Big PictureStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Jun 12, 2015 – 03:36 PM GMTBy: Gary_TanashianIn the previous post Tom McClellan highlights Peter Eliades’ work on the cyclical top due in the S&P 500 this year. To add some color to it, here is the chart I produced for NFTRH subscribers several weeks ago after purchasing and reading an Eliades […]
Wikimedia CommonsMorgan Stanley’s US equity strategy team published a note Monday titled “We Are Full of Bull.”In it, strategist Adam Parker identifies a multitude of reasons to be bullish.However, many of the more bearish folk continue to point to the S&P 500’s price-to-forward-earnings ratio (P/E), which at 17x is not reflective of a cheap market.Parker actually believes the stock market […]
Wikimedia CommonsMorgan Stanley’s US equity strategy team published a note Monday titled “We Are Full of Bull.”In it, strategist Adam Parker identifies a multitude of reasons to be bullish.However, many of the more bearish folk continue to point to the S&P 500’s price-to-forward-earnings ratio (P/E), which at 17x is not reflective of a cheap market.Parker actually believes the stock market […]
Final reminder! Please take our quarterly reader survey here; just 3 quick questions to help us continue to serve you. Even if you have taken it in previous quarters please do so again. Thanks!Watch tonight’s video market recap on my Ticker.tv channel, Mark333.Friday closed out a very volatile week as two big down days were offset by two big up […]
Editor’s note: Navin Chaddha is managing director of Mayfield, an early-stage venture capital firm. Some of the companies he is currently championing include Gigya, Elastica, Lyft, MapR and Poshmark.As we enter the second half of 2014, it would be fair to say that big data has gone mainstream, attracting coffee table books, multiple industry landscapes, consumer applications, and large amounts of […]
Big data has become the big thing recently and seems to be all anyone is talking about (besides it being the year of mobile, of course). By “big data,” we mean a concentrated effort to gather intelligence about your business so you can accomplish a deeper analysis.The fanfare isn’t unwarranted, though. Big data allows you to get a better understanding […]
Big Data has made headlines in technology by customizing user experience and predicting behavior.What is Big Data you ask?It’s the storage and analysis of large quantities of information generally considered too complex for traditional use. Other industries, including health care, are also starting to explore the practical applications of using data to inform decision-making.I recently explored the potential for the […]
Abnormal Returns posted a few particularly good links yesterday; check out the study of how returns early in the market day predict those later in the day. I’ll have more to say about that topic later this weekend, as it dovetails nicely with recent observations regarding who is participating in markets. Also worth a read is Adam Grimes’ post regarding […]
“It’s totally creepy,” Big Data mastermind Alan Wilkis says, “the idea of being able to stalk people on Facebook and Twitter and whatever, and kind of learn more about strangers than you should be able to know and how easy that is. You can wind up on a total stranger’s page and then you’re looking at photos of their wedding […]
