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Data have shown that missing out on big days can torpedo a portfolio. “It’s very, very important for your long-term gains to be in the market when you get these strong, up-moving days,” he says. |
Garnry suggests the uneasy investor “tilt” a portfolio toward defensives like utilities, telecom, health care and consumer staples, and take money off the table from cyclicals — financials, industrials and materials. |
There’s one more sector to consider, he says — IT, which has become more defensive over the past five years. |
“We think the primary driver of that is that software is 60% of the sector weight,” he says. “Software per definition is a more stable business, more recurring revenue, more predictable” than the two former big IT industries, hardware and semiconductors. |
Read: Your best defensive bet is....tech stocks? |
Stocks may struggle to hold onto those highs as the Dow DJIA, +0.42% , S&P SPX, +0.16% and the Nasdaq COMP, +0.02% are all in the red in the early going, as Apple dips. Oil prices US:CLZ7 are up, lifted after the IEA reported a drop in global supply. Gold US:GCU7 is perking up, while the ICE Dollar Index DXY, +0.40% is... |
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The bitcoin bear has growled again. |
J.P. Morgan CEO James Dimon took a swing at the lead cryptocurrency yesterday, telling the Delivering Alpha conference that bitcoin is “a fraud” and that it’s all going to end in tears. Bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.36% , which has been under pressure due to lingering concerns over a China bitcoin-exchange ban, has been dipping b... |
It wouldn’t be the first time Dimon has taken a swipe at bitcoin. He called it a “terrible store of value” back in January 2014. Of course bitcoin was trading at a mere $900 when he made that comment. |
Note this all comes as Bank of America Merrill Lynch reports that bitcoin is now the most crowded trade going. |
Apple AAPL, +0.36% is down about 1.1% after its big reveals yesterday, while its suppliers are getting a bruising, too. Some investors are a little wary after the company revealed the $999 iPhone X will be released on Nov. 3, well after the company’s fiscal year ends. And analysts can’t agree on whether the iPhone even... |
Meanwhile, a group that includes Bain Capital and Apple signed a letter of intent to buy Toshiba’s 6502, -0.41% chip business for more than $18 billion, the WSJ reported, citing sources. |
Higher U.S. gas prices boosted wholesale inflation in August. The Federal budget is due at 2 p.m. |
Let's throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the harbour. Catch the trade winds in our sails. |
“Let’s throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the harbor. Catch the trade winds in our sails.” — That was EU bigwig Jean-Claude Juncker lauding the recovery of the region. He also warned Britain will soon regret its Brexit in a speech to EU Parliament. |
22.2 million — That’s how many U.S. adults are expected to cut the cable cord this year, says research from eMarketer reported by Variety. If that happens, it’ll represent a 33% gain over 2016. |
The Cleveland Indians tied with the Oakland A’s for the longest American League win streak — 20 games — after Corey Kluber pitched a shutout. |
A 60-foot long, 130-tonne “fatberg” of wet wipes, condoms and oil is blocking a London sewer. |
*McDonald’s, the premier fast food dynasty, kicked off its Black History Month celebration by recognizing the achievements and talent of eighteen Black Media Legends who have impacted the Black community through their achievements and positive examples. |
McDonald’s salutes the Faces of Black History luncheon took place in New York at the tony Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 where the leading food supplier also unveiled the 2010 Faces of Black History poster featuring the media legends. |
The annual salute to McDonald’s Faces of Black History marked the seventh successful soiree coordinated by A. Curtis Farrow, president & CEO, Irving Street Rep. Inc., and hosted by New York Tri-State Area McDonald’s Restaurants. |
The exceptional event was created to honor Black History makers throughout our community and our country, from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks to present day heroes/sheroes. |
After blessings from Archbishop Eugene Blount, of The Elim International Fellowship, Brooklyn, New York, the heroic honorees and their special guests dined on Organic Greens (Caramelized Endive, Oven Roasted Tomato, Goat Cheese Brule, Honey Lemon Dressing); Pan Roasted Organic Chicken (Sweet Garlic Whipped Potatoes, Ha... |
Additionally, Pete Samaha, president, PR committee & McDonald’s owner/operator, and Linda Dunham, chairman, RMHC Global & McDonald’s owner/operator, representing Ronald McDonald House Charities, participated in the brief program presided over by co-hosts Sandra Bookman (ABC-TV), Lynne White (former anchor, WB11) and Br... |
Other participants in the stellar program included media presenters who were accompanied by a McDonald’s owner/operator in handing out the awards — the likes of Pat Battle, Johnnie Bailey, Marian Etoile Watson, Alisa Harrison, Kent S. John, Brian Hairston, Chris Cottrell, Dawn Mussenden, Gwen Edwards, Cortesia Norman, ... |
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Economics remains one of the main topics of the Moscow talks. Russia says international financial institutions need revamping. Along with others countries, it also questions dollar’s role as the world's reserve currency. |
The US and Russia are being hit by the global financial crisis in very different ways. |
The US has seen recessions before – but none as big as this since the 1930s. For the new Russia – not even 20 years out of communism – this is terra incognita. |
Konstantin Sonin, from the New Economic School, says coping with the crisis can only mean big changes. |
“There could be some really tough questions: whether we keep capitalistic institutions intact and whether we will still move toward a market economy,” Sonin says. |
The US is still trying to fathom how far the crisis will hit the dollar. Some say it's in terminal decline as an international currency. |
US economic trend forecaster Gerald Celente, the man who many recognize as the first to foresee the crisis, says the greenback's global role is numbered. |
“There will be a new reserve currency. The dollar is becoming worthless. In the US, the Federal Reserve has put some $13 trillion worth of phantom money, printed out of thin air and backed by nothing in the system, so the rest of the world is worried about the devaluation of the dollar,” Celente says. |
Russia has suggested the need for change worldwide, and a revamp of institutions like the World Bank and IMF – but also ditching the dollar as the global reserve currency. |
And some experts even say that dumping the dollar might, in the end, actually help the US crawl out of the crisis. |
“When Russia diversifies reserves, it might actually be much better for the US that not all the countries in the world keep their reserves in dollars,” Sonin believes. |
President Obama won office on a promise of change. While perhaps it might not quite be the kind he had in mind, he says plenty more is needed to restore financial health. |
“We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand. We must build our house upon a rock. We must lay a new foundation for growth and prosperity, a foundation that will move us from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest, where we consume less at home and send more exports abroad,” Obama has sa... |
His trip to Moscow may show what he thinks of his Russian hosts' view that the world's financial architecture – and America's role in it – must change. |
Marking the network's latest pickups for the 2016-17 broadcast season. |
Fox is cementing its 2016-17 schedule. |
The network has handed out series orders to dramas Pitch, The Exorcist, Lethal Weapon and APB and comedies Making History and The Mick. |
All six projects had been among the network's early frontrunners. All, save for Lethal Weapon, hail from studio sibling 20th Century Fox Television as the network looks to have an ownership stake in as much of its new series as possible. |
Pitch marks the first Dan Fogelman project to go to series since the prolific producer's move from ABC Studios to 20th TV. The drama centers on a young female pitcher (Kylie Bunbury, Under the Dome) who defies the odds when she becomes the first woman to play in the major leagues. In a first, Major League Baseball is p... |
The Exorcist, a modern reinvention inspired by William Blatty’s 1971 book, is a propulsive, serialized psychological thriller following two very different men tackling one family’s case of horrifying demonic possession and confronting the face of true evil. Geena Davis stars in the drama from Jeremy Slater. The show co... |
APB centers on a tech billionaire (Weeds' Justin Kirk) who purchases a troubled police precinct in the wake of a loved one’s murder. But can this eccentric and enigmatic figure’s cutting-edge approach fix the broken ways of these blue-blooded veterans? Inspired by the New York Times story "Who Runs the Streets of New O... |
Lethal Weapon is based on the feature film of the same name. When Texas cop and former Navy SEAL Martin Riggs (Rectify's Clayne Crawford) suffers the loss of his wife and baby, he moves to Los Angeles to start anew. There, he gets partnered with LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh (Damon Wayans Sr.), who, having recently suf... |
Making History centers on three unlikely friends who find an even less likely way to travel through time, irreversibly complicating their personal lives in 2016 as the great moments of the past collide with today's popular culture — with hilarious and quite disastrous results. Adam Pally and Leighton Meester star in wh... |
The Mick is toplined by It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Kaitlin Olson and hails from It's Always Sunny duo John Chernin and Dave Chernin. The single-camera comedy revolves around a hard-living, foul-mouthed woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, Conn., to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister and brother-... |
The six pickups join the previously ordered 24 reboot and Lee Daniels' Star, among other straight-to-series orders as Fox looks to fill an American Idol-sized hole on its schedule next season. |
Homeless shelter for veterans benefited from charity in gambling probe, may have to close. |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former Army cook who fell on hard times, Debbie Bowman has been living at the Allied Veterans Center, a shelter for homeless veterans, since August. |
Bowman stays in the barracks-style brick building — formerly a state-run nursing home — with 27 other vets. She received career counseling and took online courses, and is applying for a job as a 911 operator. But before Bowman can get back on her feet, the shelter may be forced to close its doors. The center was founde... |
Authorities said the charity was a ruse that raked in $300 million from gambling at its 49 parlors across Florida over the last five years. Investigators said only about 2 percent of the money — or nearly $6 million — actually went to charities. |
In 2011, Allied Veterans established the homeless shelter as a separate corporation and gave it an initial donation of $630,000 — enough to make a down payment on the shuttered nursing home and to pay for repairs and renovations. |
Kelli Kennedy reported from Miami. |
Is this red panda up to some trick, or merely enjoying a pumpkin treat? |
Either way, it certainly adds to the Halloween festivities at Chester Zoo in Britain. |
The Enchantment of Chester Zoo, featuring a host of acrobats, musicians and costumed characters, is the zoo's first large-scale Halloween event. |
An evil sorcerer has supposedly cast a spell over the zoo to steal the powers of its nocturnal animals, and zoo goers embark on a journey to break the spell. |
Organisers hope the event will raise awareness of unusual nocturnal animals such as the aye-aye and aardvark. |
Chester Zoo is one of the most popular zoos in Britain and was named the seventh best zoo in the world in a ranking by TripAdvisor last year. |
“There was a longish period in the 1990s and the early part of this century when economic history was very much out of fashion, at least in history departments,” says Knowles professor of history Emma Rothschild. She has played a role in the recent revival of the field, originally established in the 1890s in Great Brit... |
A project on the history of energy (and climate change) seeks to widen perspectives on past economic, social, and environmental processes by studying energy use and transformation. The field has been pursued in Cambridge, England, for some 20 years, says Rothschild, and has recently seen “outstanding work,” by Harvard ... |
What's the AR/VR equvilent of W.I.M.P.? Tracking cameras that let people see their hands and keyboards and mice might help VR but I can't help but think virtual displays while interacting with reality will give AR an advanrage. |
The interface methods are a serious issue with both, but rather less so for AR because one can still see and interact safely with physical interfaces or at least interact with virtual interfaces with some semblence of safety. Environmental navigation, on the other hand is problematic particularly while physically stayi... |
"What's the AR/VR equvilent of W.I.M.P.?" |
I think there was a good example of it in the third 'Matrix' movie when you saw the computer AI system that people with plugs in their heads were interacting with, move your hands and touch a virtual display that's suspended in midair, things like that. |
But until we have a UI that makes _THAT_ possible, it's just more "new, shiny" to hype a sow with lipstick on it (and not even on the OINKY end) called "Windows 10" aka "Win-10-nic". |
QUESTION: Why does Micro-shaft spend SO much time and money and effort on THIS (playing 'catch up' to Google and Apple, basically) while *SIMULTANEOUSLY* ignoring the *FACT* that their UNPOPULAR OPERATING SYSTEM has a *CRAP* *UI* that looks like it was designed in **1985** (like windows 1.0). |
Micro-shaft: GET RID OF THE 2D FLATSO, the ADWARE, and the SPYWARE. When you get THAT right, people will like your OS whether it has 3D AR/VR or not. |
icon, because Micro-shaft FAIL OS. |
3 automatic reboots followed by an automatic restoration of the previous, 1703, version. |
Gone through the sequence at least 5 times, and no amount of cache clearing, update resetting, registry magic will allow for my "Microsoft" Surface Pro to succeed. |
VR is obviously not coming my way any time soon. |
You're not missing anything. MS MR headsets don't seem to be available in the UK and so far I haven't found any useful new features in the Fall Creator's update. There was nothing useful in Creator's Update either which considering I'm a developer and use Windows to "create" every day is either exceedingly bad naming o... |
Try Argos, Pc World or Amazon for starters. The samsung headet although is not available in the UK. |
I got a lenovo headset. It is early days, but it is certainily fun. I thinking of having a go coding for it over the weekend. |
"That said, the market is at an early stage." |
Re: "That said, the market is at an early stage." |
It's the age old problem - you need compelling content to persuade people to buy the equipment, but nobody wants to spend the money creating content when there isn't an existing user-base to sell it to. Every so often I pull my Daydream View off the shelf, spend an hour or two trying out a few apps from the play store,... |
"Samsung with... the newly announced Windows Mixed Reality headset, the HMD Odyssey." |
An article on VR and AR that fails to mention the Vive? Significant omission. |
An article on VR and AR that fails to mention the Vive? |
Presumably because it's an article paid for by Asus and Asus and HTC are competitors.. |
While it's fun tech, I honestly have yet to see anything that even hints at non-niche uses for the tech. Maybe I'm just jaded but just because some tech is fun doesn't mean that it is in any way practical in the real world, despite what movies or sales people might suggest. |
Some games, yes. Specialist systems, such as medical or architectural imaging, quite likely. Much else beyond this? No. Unfortunately my opinion doesn't match that of the pushers of this tech who insist that this tech is absolutely vital for modern businesses and their boards and committees. The same boards and committ... |
"The same boards and committees that we are dilligently printing out content for." |
That doesn't mean they won't buy the shiny new kit, even though it'll just end up as pointless decoration in their corner offices. |
Other than that, I'm fully in agreement with you. |
In my case, marrying AR to 3D printers for prototyping and even, in some cases final product is a significantly good case of improving my productivity. However, we both know that's a niche case. The arts community would probably make a good application as well. My sister gets all of her jewelry from her artsy friends. |
The other application, again engineering, is remote inspection using drones in cases where it's either environmently dangerour, or it's just damned hard to get to or into. It might also be used for data visualiztion, something somewhat difficult when more than two dimensions are involved. FWIW, that's all I can come up... |
"This article was supported by: Asus" |
Wouldn't it be better to have that in a larger font and at the start of the article? After all, if it's a bought-and-paid-for article it's better to notify the punters up-front.. |
Re: "This article was supported by: Asus" |
I thought in advertorials like this the first word was usually "Sponsored" in bold. Why not this time? |
Only run Win 10 incase some PHB insists I use software that wont run under Wine. I note many Oz government sites now dont seem to like Linux and insist of Fluash and require not blocking of multiple sites owned by noted invaders of privacy. |
Only use I can see for augmented reality is headset VR for inattentive drivers who get visual alarms and loud audio when they are in wrong lane, too fast, across white/yellow lines etc. Maybe block FB, texting and phone calls by default. |
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