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World Cup Day 6 Bit of a bounceback yesterday as I hit 2 out of 3 (and frankly, in terms of the run of play, all 3). Now 3-9-1 ATS for the World Cup. Today's picks: FIFA World Cup 2014 - Group H - Belo Horizonte - Belgium -1½ over Algeria. Belgium provides good betting value as they are a top team but punters do not give it top team respect. Now if you look at FIFA rankings, the line is fair, if not favorable to Algeria (ranked 22 to Belgium's 10.) My view ...
Brazil's World Cup Of Cyber Attacks: From Street Fighting To Online Protest Spear-phishing, DDoS attacks, malware. While people are protesting in the streets of São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro against the organizers of the FIFA World Cup, which they see as an useless waste of money, taking place while the majority of the population is still struggling to make a living, another conflict is raging online. The report “The State of the Art of Digital Guerrilla during the 2014 Brazilian World Cup” ...
- U.K. Jobless Claims to Decline for 19 Consecutive Months - ILO Unemployment Rate to Narrow to 6.7%- Lowest Since January 2009 Trading the News: U.K. Jobless Claims Change Another decline in U.K. Jobless Claims may prompt a near-term advance in the GBP/USD as it puts increased pressure on the Bank of England (BoE) to normalize monetary policy sooner rather than later. What’s Expected: ...
Steve Jobs Taught This Man How To Win Arguments With Really Stubborn People Have you got any stubborn people in your life? Well, here's a brilliant life lesson shared by Pixar cofounder and Walt Disney President Ed Catmull. He spent 26 years working with the notoriously stubborn Steve Jobs, one of Pixar's other cofounders. Jobs once told him that his method of working things out when people disagreed with him was to "just explain ...
Basics of Online Stock Trading In recent years, positive trends in consumer credit activities have helped create major shifts in the tendency to place retail investment trades online, rather than on the floor of a traditional stock exchange. There is a wide variety of ways to start doing this. Already, there is a large and growing number of regulated brokers that offer access to all of the major asset classes with trading platforms that can be managed through PCs and mobile ...