At LendEDU, we love looking
at interesting data.
In this week's roundup, we take a look
at interesting data from the US that seems to show that there might be more DIY investors willing to venture into the market rather than retreat from it.
Let's look
at some interesting data from other industries for comparison.
Not exact matches
What's more
interesting, and perhaps transformative for the insurance industry, is the iMetrik - collected
data that Desjardins eventually does get to look
at.
Trading
data shows open
interest for Brent put options to sell
at $ 70, $ 69 and $ 68 per barrel has surged since the middle of last week on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
«Inventory
data, which is
at a fairly high level historically speaking, supports the view that clearly we're building too many homes, and the fact that new sales have slumped so much is I think a reflection that investors have lost
interest.»
That's because it will be one of the few remaining
data points that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Market Committee will have before they decide whether or not to begin the process of raising
interest rates
at their upcoming meeting December 15th and 16th.
The Arthur Liman Public
Interest Program
at Yale first collected
data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015,
at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.
Britain's housing market continued to lose momentum
data showed too, with mortgage approvals
at their weakest in nearly three years following the Bank of England's first
interest rate hike in a decade.
For instance, Inktomi provides
data to Microsoft's MSN Search and Yahoo's Overture, while the Open Directory Project feeds
at least 300 others, including many specialized ones catering to particular industries or
interests.
At this point, pretty much any economic
data report is of
interest to U.S. markets, with the Federal Reserve watching closely for evidence of a sustained economic recovery before it finally implements its long - awaited
interest rate hike.
Ketan Paranjape, chief of technical staff
at Intel, says the chip giant is
interested in enlisting Emotiv's headset to navigate via thought three - dimensional representations of corporate
data — the company featured Emotiv prominently
at its annual conference for developers.
The factory
data added to reports on auto sales, housing and employment in suggesting the economy was regaining some speed, but probably not fast enough to encourage the Federal Reserve to start raising
interest rates next month, as most economists had anticipated
at the beginning of the year.
But weak
data suggests there will be no change to
interest rates announced
at the end of the central bank's meeting on Thursday.
Mike Litt, consumer campaign director
at U.S. PIRG, a public
interest group, said Congress instead is considering legislation that would exempt credit bureaus from
data break notifications and make it harder for states to hold them accountable.
«In Canada as in the U.S. and Europe, the most common question investment consultants are asked by clients about ESG is whether an ESG - based approach will negatively impact investment performance,» said Andrew Sweeney, Institutional Portfolio Manager
at RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «This and other
data from the survey reveal a high level of
interest and curiosity about responsible investing, including areas of significant uncertainty.
The other dimension of our
data is open
interest, i.e., the number of contracts outstanding
at any one moment in time.
It's also makes sense to look back
at the historical
data to see what happens when bonds aren't in a near - continuous falling
interest rate environment.
Bank of Canada hits pause:
Interest rates in Canada are seen on hold
at least until July, if not until next year, as a
data - dependent central bank awaits more hawkish
data.
Kosinski was deputy director
at Cambridge University's Psychometrics Centre
at the time and, along with another professor
at the department, David Stillwell, had already worked on a project drawing links between anonymized Facebook profiles and responses from personality surveys — with that
data also obtained via a Facebook app — aiming to connect
interests with voting tendencies.
The likelihood of an
interest - rate increase in Canada by the end of the year was
at 41 percent on Wednesday, according to overnight index swaps
data compiled by Bloomberg.
Now, talking about what is specifically happening with the US dollar, it might be
interesting for people to look
at the
data provided by the World Bank, in which the World Bank provides the ratio between purchasing power parities and nominal exchange rates of countries, comparing it with the US dollar.
In his role
at Propel, he takes a
data - driven approach to evaluating investment opportunities and has a particular
interest in computer vision, insurance, mobility, capital markets, and enterprise software.
Steady overall
data recently suggest a holding pattern since the Fed decided against raising
interest rates
at its September meeting.
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data; (ix)
data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading
at all relevant times.
Michael Useem, a professor
at the Wharton School
at the University of Pennsylvania, says this is a «catastrophic moment» for Facebook and predicts the Cambridge Analytica
data breach will continue to be a source of «great public
interest and intense scrutiny going forward.»
The tumult that saw global equity markets begin to fall
at the beginning of February was triggered by U.S. jobs
data that showed wages grew more than anticipated, raising worries that signs of higher inflation might push the U.S. Federal Reserve to increase
interest rates more quickly.
Susan Emerick: It's really
interesting that you describe a
data driven approach to employee advocacy and how you enabled employees
at Dell.
At the very least, the Nielsen
data makes a strong case for the theory that the time we allocate to consuming entertainment content is valuable in direct proportion to its finitude and therefore may be better spent by side - stepping the advertisements for all those things we've never had any
interest in buying in the first place.
Below, we look
at the
data to show you a few of the popular,
interesting, and potentially affordable neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In fact, the long run correlation between
interest rates and credit is decidedly negative
at approximately -0.34 (source: Bloomberg,
data from July 1991 to October 2016).
OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada on Wednesday maintained its key
interest rate
at one per cent, confirming expectations that the bank would hold off on further rate hikes amid slackening economic
data.
In all, Californians in 2016 — the most recent year for which state
data are available — borrowed $ 1.1 billion
at triple - digit
interest rates.
Looking
at the Nasdaq's short
interest data for Tesla (TSLA) and we can see a roughly 7 million share short
interest difference in this year alone.
Asset Management firms
interested in alpha generating investment ideas purchase tickets and meet One - on - One with alternative
data providers
at their tables
Market participants were wondering how the mostly stronger
data could influence the Federal Reserve's
interest rate trajectory this year,
at a time when other central banks are not really in a hurry to tighten their policies.
After graduating from MIT and getting his MBA, Mahni pursued his
interest in big
data and genomics as Head of Marketing
at Bina Technologies (acquired Roche).
Interesting data points: Absentee buyers, typically investors who don't intend on living in the home as a primary residence, made up 22.3 percent of all homes sold in March, up from 20.9 percent
at the same time last year.
Anyhoo, as I stated
at the beginning of this post, it certainly is an
interesting subject about which to speculate as the scientific
data continues to challenge our traditional understanding on this highly personal as well as socially important subject.
The
data gets even more
interesting when you look
at how it breaks down across gender, age group and employment status.
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At the same time, religion is itself always
interested in the universal, because the generalities of philosophy give some coherence to the particularities of emotion and feeling that belong to the
data of religion.
Domke heads the school of journalism
at the University of Washington and the massively documented book provides
interesting data on the increased prominence of religion in political discourse since the Reagan presidency, with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush receiving the lion's share of attention.
For anyone
interested in creating their own
data - driven betting systems, Sports Insights President Dan Fabrizio will be hosting a live webinar on Wednesday, November 28
at 1 pm ET, focusing on how to build sports betting systems.
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«There is a lot of new
interesting data coming out in terms of looking
at acute verse chronic load and matching up how much you can do this week based on what you have been doing for the last four weeks.»
When analyzed, this
data helps us analyze how visitors arrive
at the Site, what type of content is most popular, what type of visitors in the aggregate are
interested in particular kinds of content and advertising, and the like.
We have taken a look
at the opening lines, as well as the early market percentages from our betting trends
data, and have found a few games with some
interesting early movement.
I have a fascination with statistical
data, which began
at a young age with a peaked
interest in NASCAR racing.
For anyone
interested in creating their own
data - driven betting systems, Sports Insights President Dan Fabrizio will be hosting a live webinar on Wednesday, November 28
at 1 pm ET, focusing on how to build NFL betting systems.