Each semester I teach a "quant" class at the Ross School of .?? Students choose ratios/factors and through FactSet (NYSE:FDS) they test those factors and create quant screens. ??Their 'quant screens' create a ranked listing of stocks, and students choose stocks from the screens.?? Then, they take the ranked??stocks and perform some valuation and further ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 22:53

Plagiarism: it?s enough to raise your blood pressure. An article in??Korean Circulation Journal appears to plagiarize from a similar article in the??Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).??In 2009,??Franz Messerli, a well-known hypertension expert at St Luke?s Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, and Gurusher Panjrath, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, published a Viewpoint and ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 22:53

Watching ?s waffling this winter and spring has been interesting for the casual observer, agonizing for fans, irritating for Magic management, and confounding to NBA experts. No matter one?s perspective, it may be insightful going forward to see how Mr. Howard?s indecisiveness will impact his marketability as a celebrity endorser. On Thursday?s deadline for NBA ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 15:23

Well, this was inevitable. As I noted yesterday, with Apple?s stock price flirting with $600, the stock has soared past the target prices that many Street analysts had been using for the stock. That leaves them with a conundrum: raises their targets or reduce their ratings. So far, it looks like what we?re going to ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 15:23

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 3/20/12, Navios Maritime Holdings Inc (NYSE: NM) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.06, payable on 4/12/12. As a percentage of NM?s recent stock price of $4.26, this dividend works out to approximately 1.41%. Below is a dividend history chart for ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 15:23

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 3/20/12, International Game Technology (NYSE: IGT) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.06, payable on 4/6/12. As a percentage of IGT?s recent stock price of $16.49, this dividend works out to approximately 0.36%. Below is a dividend history chart for IGT, ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 15:23

At Innorobo 2012 in Lyon, France there were a lot of robots running around. Robots dancing in sync, the ubiquitous cleaning robots and a handful of large robots gliding around the exhibition hall. Toyota was even there with their urban scooter, which they call a personal transporter, the Winglet. Announced in 2008, but still no ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 14:55

As the saying goes, there are many possible reasons for an insider to sell a stock, but only one [...]

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 22:55

On a slow Friday afternoon, almost any rumor you want to dream up can move stock prices. Exhibit A: Research In Motion shares jumped 93 cents, or 6.9%, to $14.38 today in a move that my buddy Tiernan Ray at Barron?s reports is due to rumors that Samsung might take a stake in the company. ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 22:55

I am a long standing fan of the Ig Nobel awards. The Ig Nobel awards are an initiative by the magazine Air (Annals of Improbable Research) and are handed out on a yearly basis - often by real Nobel Prize winners - to people whose research "makes people laugh and then think" (although its motto ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 22:55