Stock Market Holiday Rally Takes a Pause
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 28, 2013 – 01:13 PM GMTBy: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short: The S&P 500 went nowhere Friday, snapping its four-day winning streak with a fractional loss of 0.03%. Today’s inaction came on weak volume, and the 0.276% intraday range (percent change from the low to the […]
Analysis of people’s perception on Royal BabyIs there anyone in this world with a Wikipedia page dedicated to him even before he was born? Don’t ponder, the answer is yes. Prince George had a Wikipedia page dedicated to him, a website inviting people to guess whether the royal baby will be a he or she, and was already on […]
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
Thank the U.S. National Security Agency for bringing Big Data onto the national stage. The agency’s questionable use of data mining and analysis in the name of national security raised Main Street’s awareness of Big Data like never before.
Making sense of a wellspring of unstructured […]
IBM buys Aspera to speed up movement of big dataAspera can move big data to and from the cloud faster than traditional methods whilst providing predictability, bandwidth control and security. This benefits companies such as media organizations uploading TV shows and movies for streaming, medical research companies sharing genome data, or any organization trying to share and synchronize […]
by FS Staff“So the Fed kept filling up the punch bowl and instead of going into inflation of goods prices, it went into an inflation of asset prices. That’s inflation in the same way, but it’s not called inflation. So if the stock market goes up and doubles, we don’t say, ‘Oh, my God-there’s been inflation!’ Or, if housing prices […]
IBM Speeds Big Data File Transfers with Aspera Acquisition
December 20th, 2013
By: John Rath
IBM announced an agreement to acquire Emeryville, California-based Aspera. Aspera’s technology helps companies securely speed the movement of massive data files around the world. The patented fasp technology from Aspera overcomes inherent bottlenecks in broadband wide area networks that slow the transfer of extremely large files, such as […]
The data analytics market is starting to boom. Hadoop distributions from big data companies like Cloudera have matured and are becoming more useful as they allow for better ways to perform real-time data processing by using cheap commodity hardware in clusters to spread data and then retrieve it for analysis. Customers are building data hubs that use Hadoop with data analytics on […]
There are now just nine trading days left in 2013, so below is an updated look at the year-to-date performance (local currency) of the stock markets for 76 countries around the world. The average year-to-date change of the 76 countries highlighted is currently just above 12%. Of the 76 countries, 57 are up (75%) in 2013 and 19 […]
Bill Holter wrote this morning, if you believe in what we are saying and are worried about your friends and family, forward at least five of them an issue of the Miles Franklin newsletter. It would be better yet if you call them and tell them you are sending it and suggest that they sign up. It could well be […]
Carpe DiemIt’s well-known that the U.S. stock market breached all-time record levels repeatedly in recent months.
But what about the rest of the world?According to new data from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the combined market cap of the world’s major stock markets hit an all-time high in November.We first read about this on Professor Mark Perry’s Carpe Diem blog. […]
