The final installment of our speech in Las Vegas…on why you can’t engineer a genuine recovery…and why GDP is just a number…and why China will blow up… The problem with trying to engineer a ‘recovery’ is the same problem with all central planning – it substitutes the honest signals from the marketplace with imposters. For [...]
The new Velocity search application for market pros on the Bloomberg terminal includes The StockTwits All Stream . The Bloomberg app pulls in message postings real-time from across the Web, including StockTwits, and uses a proprietary Bloomberg algorithm to detect abnormal spikes in tweeting volume related to specific public companies. Check out the screen shots [...]
- Fire discovered! Researchers in France think they have identified the site where fire was first discovered. Carbon dating puts the discovery much earlier than previously thought. But here’s the big surprise…it was not modern humans who discovered fire. More below… Our beat here at the Daily Reckoning isn’t combustion, it’s money. We keep our [...]
One goal of Stocktwits is to have the deepest and most detailed suggested lists around markets/finance and we are tweaking them every day. Today, with the help of CME Group we are getting serious about two new streams 1. $exchtalk – This a “Twitterview” program that has been going on for a while on Twitter [...]
We are happy to announce that StockTwits has closed a 3 million Series B financing round led by Foundry Group and returning investor True Ventures. Since launching a year ago, we have been moving very quickly to build a real time financial media company amid a landscape of transformation within the industry. If you’ve ever [...]
I am a creature of habit. I use the web to make me smarter. If I am reading you consistently it’s because of the leverage you help me with in my life. I also partake in a little humor, but other than that I live a boring web life. I let others do the exploring [...]
On October 6, the Reserve Bank of Australia surprised the global financial community with a .25% interest rate hike. Only 1 in 20 surveyed economists expected it. But if conventional economists would simply plot central banks’ decisions on a chart of bond yields, they would make a "shocking" discovery that could save them a lot [...]
Any ‘Best Of’ or Twitter List is flawed if I am on it. You know the old club joke from the great Rodney Dangerfield (please correct me if I am crediting improperly). I wanted Twitter to have lists for discovery purposes, but seeing myself on other people’s lists is just weird. I was alerted via [...]
We all navel gaze in the era of the social web. I remember I used to check my stats when I started blogging and obviously that happened on Twitter for a while as well. I don’t check my personal Twitter stats anymore, but I do want to know everything about Stocktwits and companies I have [...]
Yahoo is spending $100 million on an ad campaign. It should spend the money on a documentary to teach brands how to piss money away and ignore your customers. Now Twitter has $100 million. Maybe they will loan Yahoo the money for the campaign and T. Rowe Price will take a commission on it, but [...]
