Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Conflict of Information

Top Mortgage Company On Brink Of Failure As Shares Plunge 87%

American Home Mortgage Investment Corp (AHM.N), a large U.S. mortgage provider, said on Tuesday it can no longer fund home loans and may liquidate assets, putting its survival in doubt.

Consumer Confidence Hits 6-Year High http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070731/consumer_confidence.html?.v=6

Bear, Lehman, Merrill Trade as Junk, Derivatives Show

On Wall Street, Bear Stearns Cos., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., are as good as junk.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

On the lookout for anomalies

http://www.trendwatching.com/ trendwatching.com and its 8,000+ trend spotters scan the globe for emerging consumer trends.

Craigslist and other top sites in SF data center get stopped out by strange power phenomenon http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/24/BAG9NR67253.DTL&tsp=1

Subprime could create global crisis, economist says

World is one "Bear-like' event away from liquidity freeze, Zandi warns

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/


Investment in Russia's economy grew 23.1% in May - 1

International Investments:
Is Policy Pendulum Swinging Back?

By Kavaljit Singh

Despite the dominant trend towards greater liberalization of investment flows, nowadays certain kinds of investments have come under closer scrutiny by policy makers. In several countries (both developed and developing), there are moves to tighten existing investment rules or to enact new rules to regulate foreign investments and protect "strategic sectors" from foreign investors

Friday, July 27, 2007

Stock market jitters create interest in fx

It has been a busy week for elite e services, as investors worried about falling stocks, housing, and credit ratings, flee to alternatives. Thus we have decided to rejuvenate a live stream of information regarding the markets, news, fx systems, technology, and pertinent information.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/23/sentient_worlds/ Sentient Worlds Wargame based on AI

Resource for AI on the web: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ai.html#learning

New FX systems added to homepage: www.startelite.com – see products – trading systems.