So far in 2010, U.S. companies have announced stock buybacks totaling more than five times as much as they had at this time last year. But evidence suggests that such buybacks a more likely to be money losing propositions — ex…
Cloud computing stocks got hammered Wednesday when hosting services provider Equinix lowered its guidance. While the dips may be stomach churning, look at them as opportunities to invest in a field that is likely to grow for th…
Cutting energy use in buildings — both commercial and residential — is a hot market for a growing number of tech companies, from giants such as GE and Intel to Silicon Valley startups. And the federal government is an eager b…
Whatever the cause of last May’s “flash crash,” the big question is how another crash can be avoided. According to Keith Saxton, Global Director of Financial Markets at IBM, “What we’ve learned is that the regulators don’t have the same tools as the people playing the market. We have to tool up the regulators and supervisors to see what’s actually going on in near real time.”
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IBM Global Financial Markets Chief on Preventing Another ‘Flash Crash’ originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:40:00.
Wall Street has been quick to punish Hewlett-Packard after the computing and software giant named former SAP chief Leo Apotheker as its new CEO on Sept. 30. But if SAP’s culture says anything about what HP will be like under Ap…