The Democrats' Dream Ticket is really about Republicans ... Imagine if Trump and Palin ran together.
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Which U.S. presidential candidates have raised the most money?
via Statista, data as of June 30, 2015.
According to the Federal Election Commission, two candidates with strong family ties to the White House are in first and second place.
Jeb Bush, whose father and brother are former presidents, is in first place with $114.4 million. Former first lady Hillary Clinton is in second place, having raised $63.1 million.
An offline N.Y.S.E. barely made a ripple in a day’s trading a few weeks ago.
Moreover, industry research indicates that confidence in the US Equity Market Structure is at a 5-year high, with 64% of the respondents having “High/Very High” confidence and 18% responding “Neutral.”
In years past, a shutdown like that might have stopped Wall Street dead in its tracks, with a broad range of companies’ shares sitting frozen until all technical problems were unwound.
But as the lengthy stoppage showed, the modern world of stock trading is much quicker, more complex and reliant on sophisticated computers — and in many cases able to adapt to issues that could have proved disastrous to the financial markets and the investors’ holdings.
To put it in perspective, NYSE-listed (Tape A) stocks account for approximately 53% of US National Market System (NMS) stock volume.
Below are industry and Tape A market share metrics for Self-Regulatory Organizations (SROs) for the first six months of 2015. NYSE accounts for 23.2% of NYSE-listed stocks and 12.3% of overall equity volume.
via Tabb Forum.
Hillary Clinton may have to deal with more fall-out from her deleted e-mail fiasco.
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The Economist Explains: The End of Moore's Law. (Economist)
Big Data Explained in Less Than 2 Minutes - To Absolutely Anyone. (DSC)
A Preliminary Taxonomy of the Voices Inside Your Head. (Digest)
Disney’s Research Lab Figures Out How To Put Words In Your Mouth. (TechCrunch)
'What I Would Tell My 20-Year-Old Self'. (Fortune)
Amazon celebrated its 20th-anniversary last week.
With 244 million active users, Amazon is by far the largest online retailer in the world.
But how does it stack up against brick-and-mortar retail giants? This infographic compares the e-commerce giant to the world’s largest retailer: Walmart.
via WebpageFX.
Kind of surprising.
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It has been a tough several weeks for Chinese markets.
As such, the Chinese government has taken some extreme measures to intervene and minimize the selloff.
Some of these measures include more than half the companies on the exchange "voluntarily" suspending trading.
But, it has not worked yet.
via WSJ.
Stratfor posits: Beijing has an underlying interest in ensuring that China's stock markets do not collapse, even though any intervention risks exacerbating whatever financial and political fallout may come from an eventual market decline or crash. Therefore, the government will likely continue to intervene to the best of its ability, propping up markets and market sentiment whenever the risk of a major sell-off becomes too great.
This does not mean that stock prices won't slide further, or that the market will stabilize — indeed, it could well become even more volatile over the coming months. Until Beijing invents more avenues for investment, or unless it embraces interest rate hikes and any post-crisis restructuring, it will have to rely on the few tools available to ensure that citizens can generate the wealth and financial security they need to consume.
So, are you conflicted about Trump running for President?
Good for entertainment ... Just not sure how good it will be for the country?
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I'm not a big tennis fan. But while flipping channels this Sunday, I saw Serena Williams hit tennis balls over 120 miles an hour in her Wimbledon win.
My son and I commented how impressive that was, and how much the game has changed.
Then, I saw this clip of Dustin Brown playing. Wow! Click it, and watch it.
It surprised me by how fast the game was played, and how the ball's path seemed to bend. More importantly, one of the best players in the world seemingly had no response.
Even though Brown was defeated in the third round of the tournament ... Sometimes the game changes right before your eyes.
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California's Drought is creating a new Gold Rush.
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