Wednesday, May 14, 2014

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Unlikely Bid for Tower Group

Posted: 13 May 2014 09:49 PM PDT

Tuesday, a subsidiary of Eurohold Group, Euroins Insurance Group, announced a $3.75 bid for Tower Group.  I think it is bogus.  Here’s why:read more...

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Published / Preprint: The systematic structure and predictability of urban business diversity. (arXiv:1405.3202v1 [physics.soc-ph])

Posted: 13 May 2014 05:49 PM PDT

Understanding cities is central to addressing major global challenges from climate and health to economic resilience. Although increasingly perceived as fundamental socio-economic units, the detailed fabric of urban economic activities is only now accessible to comprehensive analyses with the availability of large datasets. Here, we study abundances of business categories across U.S. metropolitan...

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Published / Preprint: Can Analysts Predict Rallies Better Than Crashes?. (arXiv:1405.3225v1 [q-fin.EC])

Posted: 13 May 2014 05:49 PM PDT

We use the copula approach to study the structure of dependence between sell-side analysts' consensus recommendations and subsequent security returns, with a focus on asymmetric tail dependence. We match monthly vintages of I/B/E/S recommendations for the period January to December 2011 with excess security returns during six months following recommendation issue. Using a symmetrized Joe-Clayton...

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Blog Post: emotionalfinance: New Personal Finance MOOC

Posted: 13 May 2014 06:55 AM PDT



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Vendor News: Infosys Wins Global Award for Innovation in Osteoporosis Diagnosis and Treatment

Posted: 13 May 2014 04:36 AM PDT

Infosys has won a global award for innovation in osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment in the 2014 Simulating Reality contest. The award-winning design makes it easier to diagnose fracture risk in patients.

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