The EmoBracelet will warn you if a decision to buy a particular parcel of shares is being made with an excess of emotion.
The electronics company Philips and the financial giant ABN Amro yesterday announced the prototype of a device that warns traders when emotions are likely to interfere with their financial acumen and [...]

Apparently many share investors are very superstitious, and tend to refrain from buying shares, and making other investment decisions, on days when there is an eclipse.
Using four broad indices of the U.S. stock market, we uncover strong evidence in support of our superstition hypothesis in four distinct ways. First, the occurrence of negative superstitious events [...]

Anyone following just about any share or stock market in recent days will have noticed a great many peaks and troughs in the graphs that chart a market’s transactions during the course of a day’s trading.
Phil Gyford took a closer look at the UK’s FTSE 100, or “footsie” index, and rather than setting the baseline, [...]

Tech feels first pinch of global downturn
While not everyone’s favourite Tech company, Microsoft shares are a good bet in times of looming recession and economic downturn.
Although it certainly has a large enterprise business, Microsoft may still be a good bet in uncertain times, Jeffries analyst Katherine Egbert said in a research note on Monday. “Seek [...]

The Big Switch: Justin from Hidden Lives pointed this out to me the other day. “Our goal is to raise awareness about climate change solutions, by informing you about simple lifestyle choices you can make to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions.” The Big Switch has information on doing something as simple as reducing energy consumption [...]