Cheque-cashing outlets may be strategically targeting persons who live in high-crime neighbourhoods, according to researchers at St. Michael's Hospital.
Social Sciences
Sep 19, 2013
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Daily box office earnings can accurately predict stock market returns, according to a new study.
Economics & Business
Oct 12, 2022
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New research suggests that a person's appearance may play a role in whether they are deemed trustworthy by financial lenders. The study is summarized in a working paper by Jefferson Duarte at Rice University's Jones Graduate ...
Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2009
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In a new study, researchers of the Complexity Science Hub highlight the connecting elements between traditional financial market research and econophysics. "We want to create an overview of the models that exist in financial ...
Mathematics
Jun 19, 2023
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In preparation for the 2024 Olympic surfing competition, a new judging tower is being constructed in the reef lagoon at Teahupo'o, Tahiti. That construction poses a threat to the reef and its ecosystem, according to researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 13, 2024
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Online scams including identity theft schemes, "advance fee" and "romance fraud" cost Americans some $485 million in 2011, a report prepared for the FBI said Thursday.
Internet
May 10, 2012
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If you have a smartphone, it probably is a significant part of your life, storing appointments and destinations as well as being central to your communications with friends, loved ones and co-workers. Research and investigative ...
Internet
Dec 11, 2018
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(AP) -- Sun Microsystems Inc.'s loss ballooned in the latest quarter as restructuring charges and a 20 percent drop in sales compounded the financial woes Oracle Corp. is set to inherit by acquiring Sun for $7.4 billion.
Business
Apr 28, 2009
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Due to their previously discovered fractal nature, financial data patterns are self-similar when scaling up. New research shows that the most extreme events in financial data dynamics—reflected in very large price moves—are ...
General Physics
Jun 16, 2014
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Danish physicist Neils Bohr once quipped that prediction is hard, especially when it is about the future. But this is precisely what financial regulators need to do—forecasting the likely state of the economy in the future ...
Economics & Business
Sep 1, 2020
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