At the behest of the federal government, and despite laws and President Obama’s recent posturing against this, states have been busy creating data systems to track “their” citizens’ entire lives. Pennsylvania calls theirs—no joke—a “womb to workplace” data collection system. Read Full Article »
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Benchmarks scored record highs yet again on Friday banking on encouraging May’s nonfarm payroll report. The S&P 500 ended at another high; the eighteenth one this year. The blue-chip index also closed at a record level for the eighth time this year. The Nasdaq too closed at a level last seen in late March. Separately, Friday’s gains helped the Russell […]
Following last week’s announcement by the European Central Bank (ECB), the stock market has now broken out above its mostly sideways movement since the beginning of the year to new all-time highs. Over the course of this bull market, each time the market has begun to show weakness, many have expected a selloff to occur only to then find the […]
Benchmarks erased day’s initial losses and ended in the green after investors shrugged off dismal labor market data to focus on an encouraging services sector report. The S&P 500 ended at another high; the sixteenth one this year. Separately, the Nasdaq was boosted by gains in tech-bellwether Apple and bio-tech stocks.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, […]
Big data and the growth of services that help us make sense of it are some of the more fascinating developments of our connected world, but in some cases they can be also some of the more scary, with companies collecting billions of data points that speak to every aspect of what we do online. Today, a report published by the Federal Trade Commission […]
Benchmarks ended in the positive territory on Friday, following reports of a rise in new home sales. Friday’s gains led the S&P 500 close at a record high and helped the blue-chip index close in the green for the year. Homebuilder stocks were among the biggest gainers for the day. Hewlett-Packard and GameStop’s better-than-expected earnings added to the bullish sentiment. […]
SummaryStocks are now well into the fifth year of what has been one of the longest bull markets in history.
Stocks are an image of beauty, and it seems as though the fun is never going to end.
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Benchmarks ended higher on Wednesday boosted primarily by the encouraging minutes from the FOMC meeting. Fed officials discussed monetary tightening while remaining flexible on such a measure. They also discussed approaches to hiking rates, but clarified this was not an indication that rates would be hiked immediately. Meanwhile, gains from consumer discretionary and energy stocks also helped benchmarks finish in […]
Web services companies, such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft, all make promises about how they will use personal information they gather. But ensuring that millions of lines of code in their systems operate in ways consistent with privacy promises is labor-intensive and difficult. A team from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research, however, has shown these compliance checks can be […]
Originally published May 19, 2014 at 6:58 AM | Page modified May 20, 2014 at 6:37 AM
Stocks finished slightly higher on Monday, adding to the small gains the market carved out at the end of last week.A dearth of fresh economic data had many investors focusing on headline-grabbing corporate deals, including a $48.5 billion bid by AT&T to […]
