Frontpage » Tag » stock

News tagged with stock

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

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

Yahoo's $7.1B deal with Alibaba offers ray of hope

After years of mortifying missteps, Yahoo Inc. finally has something to boast about: a multibillion-dollar windfall from a savvy investment in China.

Technology / Business

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook investors to cash out more shares

(AP) -- Insiders and early Facebook investors will be unloading more of their shares in the initial public offering, the company said Wednesday, as they take advantage of investor demand.

Technology / Business

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Spurious switching points in traded stock dynamics

Physicists have rebuffed the existence of power laws governing the dynamics of traded stock volatility, volume and intertrade times at times of stock price extrema. They did this by demonstrating that what appeared as "switching ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Retirement plans after the Great Recession

New research shows that 40 percent of older Americans postponed retirement in the wake of the Great Recession.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Facebook, Yahoo! patent battle heats up (Update)

A legal battle between Yahoo! and Facebook heated up Friday with the floundering Internet pioneer accusing the rising social network star of buying patents just to retaliate in court.

Technology / Business

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Using Twitter to predict financial markets

A University of California, Riverside professor and several other researchers have developed a model that uses data from Twitter to help predict the traded volume and value of a stock the following day.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Facebook buys patents from IBM to defend itself

(AP) -- Facebook has acquired patents from IBM as it girds itself for litigation, including a lawsuit by Yahoo.

Technology / Business

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Study: The right strategy doesn't guarantee advantage in auctions, real estate or stock market

Who wouldn't pay a penny for a sports car? That's the mentality some popular online auctions take advantage of -- the opportunity to get an expensive item for very little money.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Feud over iPad highlights faded tech firm's woes

The battle between an ailing Chinese electronics maker and Apple Inc. over the iPad name is just as much a tale of obsolescence in the fast-moving global technology industry as it is a legal row over a trademark.

Technology / Business

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Hackers take aim at Nasdaq, Bats websites

Hackers have targeted the public websites of the operators of the Nasdaq and Bats stock exchanges over the past two days with cyberattacks that disrupted the sites but had no impact on trading.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Groupon fails to turn profit as revenue grows

Daily deals site Groupon on Wednesday issued its first earnings report as a publicly traded company, saying it failed to turn a profit despite revenue nearly tripling from a year earlier.

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Will Facebook deliver an IPO surprise?

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns up at business conventions in a hoodie. "Cocky" is the word used to describe him most often, after "billionaire." He was Time's person of the year at 26.

Technology / Business

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Report: Facebook IPO filing could come next week (Update)

When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald's, ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Stock

In the investment world, a share of stock (also referred to as equity share) represents a share of ownership in a corporation (company).

In the plural, stocks is often used as a synonym for shares especially in the United States, but it is less commonly used that way outside of North America.[1]

In the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Australia, stock can also refer to completely different financial instruments such as government bonds or, less commonly, to all kinds of marketable securities.[2]

For more information about Stock, read the full article at Wikipedia.
This text uses material from Wikipedia and is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.