Friday, August 31, 2018
Stocks End August Mixed On Trade Concerns
Hello traders everywhere. While August has been a strong month for stocks overall the stocks market is ending the month on a weak note with the exception of the NASDAQ, which continues to make gains on the back of Apple and Amazon which have kept Nasdaq slightly higher today. Despite Friday's declines, Wall Street is […]
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Four scenarios for Taylor Swift’s new record deal. It’s possible she could receive $20 million per album.
"There’s no precedent to look to regarding the top-selling artist of the digital era becoming a total free agent.”
↩︎ Variety
Skim reading is the new normal—and that’s a very bad thing for society.
There’s an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.
↩︎ The Guardian
Understanding Forex Market Hours and Forex Hourly Tendencies
Learn how forex market hours and sessions affect your trading. Each hour of the day, and each forex pair, has different characteristics based on what global markets are open. Understanding these characteristics means you’ll be better able to find and filter trades, and apply your strategies at the correct time.
Some background knowledge is required to trade forex effectively. While the forex market trades 24-hours, not all hours are viable for all day trading strategies.…
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OCC will not offer further guidance on ‘fourth-party’ risk
FX boosts UK derivatives values
Focus shifts to plumbing as crypto markets mature
Venezuela launches app to aid currency reconversion
Thursday, August 30, 2018
For people who think women shouldn’t be alone in the wilderness: backpacking as respite from sexual harassment.
I shouldn’t feel safer summitting an icy peak than I do in my own home. I shouldn’t feel safer walking among 400-pound grizzlies than I do walking among my male co-workers.
↩︎ Outside Magazine
The force was strong with Blondie.
We just noticed that Blondie's 1980 version of "Tide Is High"—a reggae song redone by a New York band during to a trip to Los Angeles, in which they tossed a bunch of modern Mexican mariachi and Cuban percussion—got a music video in which Debbie Harry nearly drowns in her apartment while Darth Vader observes from outer space. They later dance.
The song became the band's third number one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Two Potential Cannabis Acquisition Targets For Alcohol Giant
Canopy Growth Corp (CGC, WEED) set the cannabis sector on fire last week after announcing a $3.8 billion investment from Constellation Brands (STZ), the third largest beer brewer in the US. Canopy shares jumped 47% in one day on the news and almost 100% in the following week. This week, I already see this same […]
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A reporter looks at the NFL’s concussion problem after having a brain injury herself.
Whiplash alone can generate a concussion. After all, it doesn’t take much to deform Jell-O.
↩︎ The Verge
If you’ve ever wondered how and why Facebook moderates billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages.
The fundamental reason for content moderation—its root reason for existing—goes quite simply to the issue of brand protection and liability mitigation for the platform.
↩︎ Motherboard
There are jobs above the API, and there are jobs below the API.
Algorithms are replacing middle management, and if you don’t have a job telling computers what to do, sooner or later your job will consist of doing what computers tell you.
↩︎ Less Wrong
Unlike other countries, the US has never put its Catholic orphanage system under official scrutiny.
Barquin recalled a girl who was thrown down stairs, and he remembered the thin lines of blood that trickled out of her nose and ear afterward.
↩︎ BuzzFeed News
Barnard becomes CLS chief auditor
Magnussen joins Nordea from UBS
Trade wars to stay for decades, say panellists
Singapore aims to become e-FX hub for Asia, says Loh
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
The Big (Cardboard) Smoke.
Cardboard melancholia for King Krule's "Biscuit Town."
Amazon, Apple and NASDAQ Hit Record Highs
Hello traders everywhere. As we near the end of the summer trading season the NASDAQ is hitting all-time highs each day being propelled by gains in tech which have been led by Amazon and Apple today. The NASDAQ traded over the $8,100 level in early trading and is currently posting about and .80% gain on […]
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The math behind why it’s smart to bet $78.46 on 2018 not being the hottest year on record.
Speaking as a fiscally prudent science reporter, I can tell you, an avid consumer of science reporting, that this is a great way to profit from your intimate knowledge of the climate debate.
↩︎ Inverse
How America became a land of mattress stores.
In a time when radical productivity is encouraged, and sleep becomes ever more elusive, our beds—and the time we spend in them—has never been more valuable.
↩︎ City Lab
The CAN SLIM Trading Strategy – Screening, Entry and Exit Methods
The CAN SLIM trading strategy seeks out growth stocks with solid fundamentals and strong price momentum. Learn how to find, enter and exit these trades, as well as see proof that this strategy far outperforms the S&P 500. We have also added in some alternative entry and exit methods which can sometimes provide better entry points and simpler profitable exits.
What is your system for investing or trading success? What stocks do you buy, and…
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The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: The Final
by The Tournament of Books Staff
It’s the end of the summer, the readers have spoken, and we have a winner.
When #metoo men return to their careers without a mention of #metoo, it suggests they haven’t learned much.
Yes, the world can live without the comedic stylings of Louis C.K. Forever? Oh, Christ, I don’t know, but maybe for more than eight months, right?
↩︎ The Cut
The desert comes to you.
For anyone feeling like the dew point's a little high in their neck of the woods: a live stream of this year's Burning Man.
Thomson Reuters adds JPY/THB to Matching
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
A collection of jokes about horror writers.
Stephen King: For the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this... The Tale of the Creepy Small Town with a Spooky Secret.
↩︎ Agouti still believes in the railing system / Twitter
Clive Barker: Is the town in Maine.
King: NO.
King:
King: yes.
"People think I'm going to paddle in a circle."
Bethany Hamilton, the professional surfer who lost her left arm to a shark attack when she was 13 years old, explains how she manages to paddle into so many waves.
Don't Buy The Low Inflation Story
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sent investors home happy for the weekend last Friday when he outlined a fairly balanced plan of interest rate increases designed to fight inflation while avoiding throwing the economy off track. Nevertheless, some economists at the Fed itself appear to believe that the central bank may not be taking the […]
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If the White House really wants to reach a compromise with China, the approach must be altered.
With Trump embroiled in burgeoning scandals and potential legal trouble at home, and with midterm elections only two months away, Xi could easily conclude that the U.S. president will only become weaker over time, and so too his negotiating position.
↩︎ Bloomberg
Elucubrate. Smaragdine. Scherenschnitte.
The official pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee demonstrates his ability to pronounce every word in the dictionary.
Forget everything you think you know about time.
Carlo Rovelli on the nature of "now" and time generally. A little long and tedious sometimes, but still exciting to dip into.
As Rovelli writes in his new book, The Order of Time, studying time “is like holding a snowflake in your hands: gradually, as you study it, it melts between your fingers and vanishes.”
The Internet isn’t responsible for the gig economy. Corporations want your job to be precarious.
It’s worth stressing that the “technology” of temp work—and the possibility of replacing entire work forces with it—existed for years before corporations made the decision to start adopting it.
↩︎ The New York Times
Caxton FX to provide open banking payments
European corporate FX losses triple
Esma renews ban on most binary options
Monday, August 27, 2018
Trade Turmoil Doesn’t Derail Our Outlook for India
Trade tensions have spooked investors in recent months, including those in India’s stock market. Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity’s Sukumar Rajah weighs in on the positive economic fundamentals he and the team see, and why they think India’s equity market should be able to weather recent challenges.
Artykuł Trade Turmoil Doesn’t Derail Our Outlook for India pochodzi z serwisu Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets.
Trade Turmoil Doesn’t Derail Our Outlook for India
Trade tensions have spooked investors in recent months, including those in India’s stock market. Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity’s Sukumar Rajah weighs in on the positive economic fundamentals he and the team see, and why they think India’s equity market should be able to weather recent challenges.
Artykuł Trade Turmoil Doesn’t Derail Our Outlook for India pochodzi z serwisu Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets.
Bear Market Blueprint - Security BEFORE You Need It
When do you think is the best time to buy a home security system? Would it be after someone breaks into your house or before? Of course, it would be before you are burglarized. After the fact doesn’t help you prevent a loss. When looking at a market crash, the same rule applies. The best way to prepare […]
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Inside a secret network providing home abortions around the US.
After several calls, Natalie told Anna about a side of her life she hadn’t yet shared: she was helping with a workshop on how to provide home abortions. Anna was welcome to attend. She just had to keep it a secret.
↩︎ California Sunday Magazine
Most depictions of the world are too optimistic or too pessimistic. A mantra like “bad and better” avoids extremes.
Does saying “things are improving” imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It’s both. It’s both bad and better... That is how we must think about the current state of the world.
↩︎ The New Yorker
“Ophan crops” are foods that fell into oblivion, despite historical usefulness. Quinoa offers a comeback story.
The world where vast majority of us rely on three crops will not prosper forever.
↩︎ Whetstone Magazine
Chip Maker Hits Target, Beats Rivals And Bitcoin
Last November I shared a promising trading opportunity to play on the Modern “Gold Rush” For Cryptocoins. Like the Great Gold Rush, I thought that those who sell equipment could benefit from new a “tulip mania” as this crypto buzz was called in the media. I selected three chip makers, which were well known for […]
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Say goodbye to the landscapes of traditional music.
Michael Nesmith of the Monkees really, really loves vaporwave, a fringe electronic subgenre.
For example, regarding "Floral Shoppe" by Macintosh Plus:
“I’d never heard anything like it, and I was just smitten. Now I listen to it pretty regularly. It really satisfies me. The first indicator as you’re listening is that it’s abnormally slow. You think, ‘Well, that’s weird. Why are they singing like that? I don’t know. Do I like this?’ If you’re distracted in the slightest and head to another train of thought, the music drifting off into this pool of liquid blue becomes compelling. It’s the most psychedelic stuff I’ve heard ever since psychedelics. You realize that this is the kind of music I hear when I’m driving in a car and I’ve got the radio on, but I’m not really listening to it. It’s some old mix I have from some old CD or some old cassette, and it starts to flow together with the sounds of speakers that are coming from shopping malls and In-N-Out Burgers. Then you stop and park by the ocean, and the ocean continues to play this music.”