Wednesday, January 28, 2015

"As Big Data and AI Take Hold, What Will It Take to Be an Effective Executive?" or Keeping the C-suite With Algos at the Gate

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From Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Big data , powerful analytics and AI are everywhere.  After years of promise and hype, technology is now ...

"China Cracks Down on Using Art for Corruption"

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From Art Market Monitor: China is getting serious about cracking down on abuses in the art market. One of the government’s official ou...

"A Warren Buffett Utility Looks to Beat Tax Expiration"

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With the new congress in place it's time to start watching for " Political Capitalism " 2015-style. President Obama has been ...

Robbing ATM's The British Way

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From Bloomberg: Boom No American ATM has ever been robbed with explosive gas. The same was true in Britain — until 2013. Now there ha...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

What It Takes to Make the Top 1% of Incomes In Each State

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From Vox: This is how much you need to earn to join your state's top 1 percent It takes around $385,000 of annual income to get into ...

Polish Swiss-Franc Mortgages May Sink Austrian Bank

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Following up on " Poland To Help Holders Of Swiss Franc Denominated Mortgages ". From ZeroHedge: The Bonds Of The Third Larges...

Online Food Delivery Is A Thing (sorry Webvan): China Co. Raises $350 Million from CITIC PE, Tencent, JD.com, Others

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From PE Hub: Chinese online food delivery service Ele.me said on Tuesday it has raised $350 million from investors including CITIC Priva...

Indiana Sets Up State-run, Taxpayer Funded News Outlet

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From the Indianapolis Star: Gov. Mike Pence's state-run news outlet will compete with media Gov. Mike Pence is starting a state-run ...

Headline du Jour: "Stocks Falling Faster Than Snow, Dow Down 345 Points"

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That's at Barron's Stocks to Watch: Stocks Falling Faster Than Snow, Dow Down 345 Points DJIA 17,322 down 356; S&P 2014 off 3...

Chartology: Watching For a Top In The Market

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We don't have a lot of faith in long term chart patterns* but Kimble does and here's what he's looking at. For what it's wo...

Oil Drillers Among Most Profitable-To-Lend To Shorts

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From Securities Finance Monitor, Jan. 22, 2015: Securities Lending Top 10 Earning Equities – January 19, 2014 DataLend presents its to...

&*^%$# Robots: Human Investment Managers at Risk

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The woman being interviewed runs more money any any other person with xx chromosomes, excluding the odd BMW heiress, Walton or Bettencourt. ...

Auschwitz Liberation Day

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I think the Jews mean it when they say "Never Again". Those are a couple Israeli Air Force F-15's the Polish governmen...
Monday, January 26, 2015

"In the mood to trade? Weather may influence institutional investors' stock decisions"

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From ScienceDaily: Date: January 15, 2015 Source: Case Western Reserve University Summary: Weather changes may affect how ins...

Natural gas futures drop 3% despite Northeast blizzard

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Most active, March's, $2.838 down 12.0 cents. From Investing.com: Investing.com - U.S. natural gas prices fell sharply on Monday, des...

Poland To Help Holders Of Swiss Franc Denominated Mortgages

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Speaking of borrowing in a currency other than the one you earn your income in .* From Reuters: REFILE-Poland may help CHF loan holders a...

Oil: U.S. Well Count To Fall By 26% in 2015, Wood Mackenzie

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From Rigzone: Wood Mac: US Onshore Well Count to Fall by 26% in 2015  The U.S. onshore well count will decline by 26 percent, from more t...

"Alternatives to Stocks in Deflationary Environments..."

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From Victor Niederhoffer's Daily Speculations: What are the alternatives to stocks in a deflationary environment? 1. playbook of scen...

"The Swiss franc appreciation and the sorry saga of FX lending"

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From our Dec. 7 post: Evans-Pritchard: "Dollar surge endangers global debt edifice, warns BIS" : Two quick points*: 1) This is...

Andreessen Horowitz On Insurance: "Software rewrites insurance" (nudge, nudge)

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From Andreessen Horowitz: Insurance is all about distributing risk. With dramatic advances in software and data, shouldn’t the way we buy...