Budweiser's Story Of A Puppy, A Clydesdale, And The Humans Who Don't...
Budweiser's "Puppy Love" was by far the biggest pre-Super Bowl hit, and its sentimentality was still effective when it capped off the night's in-game advertising.The commercial tells the the...
View ArticleWatch A Nearly Four-Minute Long 'Amazing Spider-Man' Sequel Trailer
Sony teased a look at its summer movie "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" during the Super Bowl. A website inside its 30-second spot, brought fans to a nearly 4-minute trailer for the film giving more...
View ArticleCHINESE INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS GROWTH SLOWS
The purchasing manger's index for China's industrial sector excluding non-manufacturing fell to 53.4 from 54.6, the lowest reading in more than a year, according to the South China Morning Post.The...
View ArticleLIVE: Thousands Of Companies Around The World Reveal The Truth About The...
Tonight kicks off Global PMI day — aka the monthly world economic Super Bowl.For the next 24 hours, we will learn what thousands of companies around the planet are telling us about the state of the...
View ArticleWhy Heroin Relapse Often Ends In Death
Philip Seymour Hoffman's death on Sunday, from what media outlets are calling an apparent heroin overdose, was a tragedy by all accounts. It was also — like the fatal overdose of Cory Monteith— a...
View ArticleWoody Allen, Cate Blanchett, And Alec Baldwin Respond After Being Called Out...
Woody Allen's estranged 28-year-old daughter, Dylan Farrow, wrote an open letter this weekend regarding allegations that her famous, adoptive father molested her when she was just 7 years old.At the...
View ArticleIt's Groundhog Day For Investors, Too
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.4 Things Investors Should Remember After The January Sell-Off (Allianz Global...
View ArticleWith The Stock Down To Under $4, Violin Memory Has Found A New CEO (VMEM)
A month and a half after firing its CEO over poor financial performance, flash-storage maker Violin Memory has named Kevin DeNuccio as president and chief executive officer.DeNuccio previously served...
View ArticleOne Kings Lane Hires Former Zappos CTO To Help Grow 'Customer-Centric'...
Hot on the heels of a $112 million round of funding, home decor site One Kings Lane announces the hire of former Zappos CTO Arun Rajan to lead its technology initiatives.The online retail giant Zappos...
View ArticleWhy Only Telling Part Of The Truth Feels Worse
Would you rather tell the police officer that pulls you over you were going 10 mph over the speed limit or admit to the 30 mph you were actually going over the speed limit?Partial confessions seem like...
View ArticleMarkets In Asia Are Getting Shredded — Japan's Down 3%
Markets are open in Asia, and they are deep in the red.Japan's Nikkei is down 2.9%.Korea's Kospi is down 1.4%.Australia's S&P ASX is down 1.4%.This follows an ugly U.S. trading session where the...
View ArticleIn 2 Charts, Here's Why An Emerging Markets Crisis Would Be Worse Than Ever...
In recent weeks, we've seen a rout in emerging markets as investors have been pulling out of stocks, bonds, and currencies in these regions.Many EM countries rely heavily on external financing to...
View ArticleWe Went To An Exclusive Event For The Programmers Behind Wall Street's Top...
A couple years ago, Chris Bartlett— a partner at buyside quant shop/high frequency firm Nobilis Capital—started hosting parties to bring the quant community together. These semi-annual parties are...
View ArticleSamsung Is Holding A Big Event February 24 — And It Could Be For The New...
Samsung just sent the press invitations to an event on February 24 at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.We don't know for sure what Samsung will announce, but there's a very good chance it's...
View ArticleGrand Theft Auto V Helps Take-Two Beat Q3 Expectations
In an earnings call on Monday, video game publisher Take-Two Interactive said its profits climbed in the third quarter because of strong sales of Grand Theft Auto V, and new games in the NBA 2K and WWE...
View ArticleBITCOIN: How It Works, And Why It Could One Day Threaten Legacy Payments...
Bitcoin is most often discussed as a volatile digital currency, beloved by some, derided by others. But where Bitcoin's real value lies is as a payments technology that has the potential to...
View ArticleHere's When People Are Most Likely To Offer Partial Confessions
Would you rather tell the police officer that pulls you over you were going 10 mph over the speed limit or admit to the 30 mph you were actually going over the speed limit?Partial confessions seem like...
View ArticleThis Chart Reminds Us Clearly That The Stock Market And The Economy Are Not...
It can't be reiterated enough that the stock market and the economy are not that same thing.For one thing, the S&P 500 represent corporations that are big enough to access the very liquid global...
View ArticleHere's Why The American Shale Gas Boom Hasn't Saved Us From Surging Heating...
One of the most bullish long-term economic stories in the U.S. is the shale energy boom. Thanks to advanced drilling technology like hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking), American energy producers have...
View ArticleCHART: The One-Year Move Of Every Major Emerging-Market Currency
The global market sell-off continues.And the emerging market continues to take the worst of it.For some context, Oppenheimer's John Stoltzfus offers this chart of emerging market currency moves...
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