News tagged with stock markets

Oil will run dry before substitutes roll out: study

At the current pace of research and development, global oil will run out 90 years before replacement technologies are ready, says a new University of California, Davis, study based on stock market expectations.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (47) | comments 73 | with audio podcast

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, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (29) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature

Stock market model first to reproduce main properties of the real market

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early '90s, researchers have been developing simulations of financial markets with the goal to better understand market dynamics. While their models have improved since then to explain ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (22) | comments 56 | with audio podcast feature

Mimicry among stocks can predict stock market crashes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since early October 2008, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average began its drop that reached a low point the following March, many questions have been raised - particularly about what caused ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Wall Street rocket scientists crash to Earth

There's a reason Wall Street resembles a rocket experiment gone wrong: rocket scientists helped make it happen.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 12

Model describes Web page popularity

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do some Web pages become popular? In a recent study, researchers have analyzed Wikipedia articles and a collection of all the Web pages of Chile to better understand the dynamics of online popularity. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

US imposes new rules on high-speed traders

US regulators on Tuesday announced new rules aimed at shedding light on the secretive industry of computerized high-speed trading, which has been blamed for destabilizing financial markets.

Technology / Other

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 36

Hoover's pro-labor stance helped cause Great Depression, economist says

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market crash of 1929 accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (11) | comments 12

Physics could help financial traders

(PhysOrg.com) -- While most people know that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, this concept is proving even truer in the world of stock trading. In a world where buying low and selling ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (14) | comments 85 | with audio podcast report

Tiger Woods Scandal Cost Shareholders up to $12 Billion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Shareholders of Nike, Gatorade and other Tiger Woods sponsors lost a collective $5 to $12 billion in the wake of the scandal involving his extramarital affairs, according to a new study by researchers at ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (19) | comments 14

Asian competitors shadow German solar industry

Germany's solar power industry, until recently the world leader in the technology, is facing an unprecedented crisis, analysts say, outshone by cheaper competitors from Asia, most notably Chinese firms.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Survey highlights major Canada-US differences in people in middle age

Middle-aged Canadians are much less worried about the future than their American counterparts, some of whom are close to panic, says an Alberta researcher who has just finished a survey in both countries. And she says the ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Algorithmic trading to replace humans in the stock market

(PhysOrg.com) -- The UK Government’s Foresight panel, led by Dame Clara Furse, has released a working paper that points out that algorithmic trading, or high frequency trading, will soon replace human decision making when it comes to the stock ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 17 | with audio podcast report

Fewer verbs and nouns in financial reporting could predict stock market bubble, study shows

When the language used by financial analysts and reporters becomes increasingly similar the stock market may be overheated, say scientists.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Statistical analysis could predict bankrupt stocks

(Phys.org) -- During the 20-year period from 1989 to 2008, 21% of of all stocks listed in US stock markets became bankrupt. Since bankruptcies affect many investors and have played a large role in the recent ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature