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Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets (reuters.com)
randomErr quotes a report from Reuters: London-based fintech firm Trading.co.uk is launching an app that will generate trading alerts for shares based on Donald Trump social media comments. Keeping one eye on the U.S. President-elect's personal Twitter feed has become a regular pastime for the fund managers and traders. Trump knocked several billion off the value of pharmaceutical stocks a week ago by saying they were "getting away with murder" with their prices. Comments earlier this week on China moved the dollar and a pair of December tweets sent the share prices of Lockheed Martin and Boeing spiraling lower. That plays to the growing group of technology startups that use computing power to process millions of messages posted online every day and generate early warnings on when shares are likely to move. Trading.co.uk chief Gareth Mann said the Trump signal generator used artificial intelligence technology to differentiate between tweets or other messages that, for example, just mention Boeing and those liable to move markets.
Investing is always a gamble. You're giving a company capital and hoping that that company makes sufficient money that they can either pay you dividends, or that the value of your shares go up enough that you can sell them to make a profit. A share is a piece of property, to be used either as a means of collecting dividends, or to be sold.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Real, widely viewed video of Clinton having a seiz...UHHH...I mean succumbing to oppressive 78 degree heat.
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Anonymous allegations denounced as bullshit by every credible intelligence expert on the planet.
Never mind, though; I get that childish, fact-free insults are the only form of 'persuasion' you know and nothing can deter you. Hell, "Drumpf" is still going strong after almost a year even though it was thoroughly debunked about 30 seconds after Oliver vomited it out of his smughole.
Anyway, yes, Trump is infinitely less likely to start WW3 than Hillary, who seemed to be actively trying to spark a direct confrontation with Russia in Syria. The era of Team America: World Police is over.