Article summary: Widening divergences in interest rate forecasts and the reality that volatility cannot continue to tread levels this low for much longer has traders on edge and looking for opportunity. US Dollar Will Settle for Euro As Recovery Driver in Absence of Volatility The most effective means for leveraging a significant rally from the US Dollar is for a shock to resonate through the global financial system. Yet, hoping for volatility is just that – hope. ...
12 Forgotten Hand-Colored Images of Life in the 1800s Instagram is a decidedly modern invention, but back in your great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents’ day, “Photochroms” were the functional equivalent. Photochroms combined emerging photographic technology and the painterly techniques of the old masters to provide technicolor glimpses of the Great Lakes, Old South, Wild West, and Pacific coast. These dreamlike vistas have been collected for the first time ...
YouTube is coming to cable TV set-top boxes, with a little help from the cloud Right now, a grandma in Hungary is watching Gangnam style for the very first time. Her introduction to Psy has been made possible by a partnership between YouTube and the local cable TV provider UPC Hungary, which added a YouTube app to its cable boxes a few weeks ago. YouTube isn’t the only online video service flirting with cable these days. Netflix has struck ...
Updated 06-21-2014 at 03:45 PM by TechnoMeter
2 Stocks That Have Fallen To Very Attractive Levels An interview with Mike McGarr, CFA, Portfolio Manager and Equity Research Analyst, Becker Capital Management ----------- Mike McGarr: Becker Capital Management was founded in 1976. We are a long-only, value-oriented investor. We currently manage about $3.1 billion of total assets, and our Becker Value Equity Fund currently has about $315 million in assets under management. Our portfolios ...
Apple releases new cheaper iMac with low-end processor, priced at $1099 As rumored last week, Apple has today released a new model of iMac. These machines are considerably cheaper than their predecessors, priced at $1099. Previously, the cheapest iMac SKU was priced at $1299 (which is now the mid-range model). The cheaper iMac features a 1.4 GHz dual-core i5 CPU, which represents a significant worsening in performance over the previous base model of iMac, which featured ...