News tagged with investors
Thermosolar power station in Spain works at night
A unique thermosolar power station in southern Spain can shrug off cloudy days: energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 18, 2012 |
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Stock market network reveals investor clustering
(PhysOrg.com) -- The stock price of a company continuously changes, going up or down depending on the collective activity of a large number of investors. Although this process seems fairly straightforward, ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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'Rationalizer' bracelet tells traders when they're stressed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Philips Electronics and the Dutch bank ABN AMRO have joined forces to develop a "Rationalizer" bracelet system that detects stress levels and displays a warning to help day-traders avoid making ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Chance favors the concentration of wealth, study shows
Most of our society's wealth is invested in businesses or other ventures that may or may not pan out. Thus, chance plays a role in where the wealth of a society will end up.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Investors driven by emotion, not facts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Individuals investing in stocks let their emotions guide them more than facts, often to their financial detriment, a new UC Davis study finds.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Death tolls spur pro-war stance, study finds
Within hours this summer, 30 American troops died in a strike in Afghanistan and millions of American investors watched the Dow Jones Average shed an astonishing 634 points in one day.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 05, 2011 |
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More is less: Complex computer models can involve thousands of variables
(PhysOrg.com) -- The architect Mies van der Rohe is famous for promoting the slogan "less is more." But if Venkat Chandrasekaran, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ...
Jun 02, 2010 |
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New research helps predict stock market
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Massey University have developed a new way to predict stock markets that has been recognised with an award from New Zealand finance specialists.
Feb 20, 2009 |
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China tries to limit Google dispute fallout
(AP) -- China tried Friday to keep its censorship row with Google from damaging business confidence or ties with Washington, promising good conditions for foreign investors but giving no sign it might relax ...
Jan 15, 2010 |
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Study: Older investors are prone to mental misfires while playing the market (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain scans highlight differences between old and young minds focused on investment choices.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 29, 2010 |
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You only live once: Our flawed understanding of risk helps drive financial market instability
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our flawed understanding of how decisions in the present restrict our options in the future means that we may underestimate the risk associated with investment decisions, according to new ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Herding leads to wrong decisions in the stock market
One reason for extreme fluctuations in the stock market is herding.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Sep 21, 2009 |
4 / 5 (4) |
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When a little knowledge really is dangerous
As the global financial meltdown has revealed, there is no shortage of people who fail to understand their own investments. Perhaps better financial literacy among the public would help many people avoid such ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Where's the next boom? Maybe in 'cleantech'
(AP) -- Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet - the kind of breakthrough that emerges every so often and builds industries, generates ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 06, 2009 |
2.8 / 5 (5) |
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Indonesian Internet use booming
So you've looked up sexy spy Anna Chapman's Facebook photos and you've cried along with Lindsay Lohan as she was sent to the slammer, but what about Peterporn, Sinta and Jovita? Ever heard of them?
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Investor
An investor is any party that makes an investment.
The term has taken on a specific meaning in finance to describe the particular types of people and companies that regularly purchase equity or debt securities for financial gain in exchange for funding an expanding company. Less frequently, the term is applied to parties who purchase real estate, currency, commodity derivatives, personal property, or other assets.
The term implies that a party purchases and holds assets in hopes of achieving capital gain or cash flow, not as a profession or for short-term income.
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