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FUTURES VS FORWARDS

Futures contracts vs. Forward contracts

Futures contracts vs. Forward contracts A futures contract,  often referred to as futures, is a standardized version of a forward contract that is publicly traded on a futures exchange (CME, LME etc.). Like a forward […]

Factors That Drive Stock Prices

Factors That Drive Stock Prices Market sentiment. On a day-to-day basis, it’s impossible to predict what will happen in stock markets around the world. One day, the market is up on better-than-expected economic indicators (GDP, […]

SWOT Analysis for Twitter (TWTR)

SWOT Analysis for Twitter (TWTR) Twitter Strengths • Real-time search. • One of the world’s most visited websites. 500 million registered users. • Companies use Twitter for marketing and customer service. • Strong increase in […]

Stock Market Crash, A Historical Pattern?

Stock Market Crash, A Historical Pattern? by Wim Grommen Every production phase or civilization or other human invention goes through a so called transformation process. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one […]

January Effect

What is the January Effect? A recurring trend in the stock market during the month of January (mostly the first half of the month) wherein stock prices tend to go up. Towards the end of […]

Boston Dynamics extreme robots – video

Boston Dynamics extreme robots Boston Dynamics  released a new video of the Big Dog on ice and snow, and also demoing its walking gait. Google bought Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile […]

Stock Market News

Germany’s Gfk consumer confidence index has held steady at 8.5 heading into June Pfizer PFE has abandoned its attempt to acquire AstraZeneca AZN for £69.4B The NHTSA has closed an investigation into Tesla Motors TSLA […]

Boston Dynamics

Entire house swept away by tornado in US Midwest

Surveillance footage from a petrol station captures the moment a tornado completely sweeps a house from its foundations in Diamond, Illinois See also: Is this the most terrifying car journey ever? Video Boston Dynamics extreme […]

Breaking Stock News

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) declares $0.70/share quarterly dividend Pfizer Inc. (PFE) declares $0.26/share quarterly dividend Deutsche has upgraded MicroStrategy MSTR to Buy Raytheon RTN net profit rises to $596M from $488M a year earlier RTI […]