vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
"Just an FYI, this can be a risky move. Unless you have been in the industry for a while, or are extremely well averse in investment management/research, keep it pretty short. In a lot of ways, you might want to think about tailoring it more like a sell-side report. Also, make sure you understand the style of investing the PM/company you are applying to likes. The reason I say this is because every buy-side shop is different. Some do 1-2 page write-ups with models and walk through's, others will expect 60 page ""decks"" (i.e. Powerpoints). The longer the deck, the more you have that can go wrong. If one tiny thing is wrong, or you have a typo anywhere, it hurts you more than it helps that you wrote something long (I once had the wrong rating on one issuance of a bond ladder I was pitching; it's all the PM's focused on). The more important aspect is that you understand the shop you are applying to and then tailoring the pitch to them. For example, don't do a growth tech company with an 80x forward P/E if you're applying to a fundamental value shop. It shows you didn't do research on the firm you're applying to and that you won't fit the culture. This is part of why I was saying that this can be a risky move, if the firm is large enough to have an HR department, they likely have a lot of different investment styles in house. Finally, try to keep it to a small/mid-cap company. Analysts/PMs follow stocks all day long and will most likely have an opinion on 99% of large caps, no matter the sector. In summary, I'd recommend a 1-2 page sell-side style write-up with a backup model (printed excel file). KISS (keep it simple stupid), have a summary, couple years worth of historical's, 2 years forward, and a few main bullet points of why you like them. In your case, this pitch should be something to pique the interest so that you can NAIL a real pitch in the interview.
It's a lot easier to trade a contract based on the forward value (a futures contract) of some commodity, than say constantly trade &amp; deliver 1000 barrels of crude oil.   Along those lines, it's also easier to trade an option on the forward value than it is an option on the actual commodity, especially if you have the ability to exercise the option
In order to be independent, people have to be able to go to school so they can get jobs. And they need more and more knowledge to get to that level. Thats a consequence of the growth in technology. Thirty years ago, anybody who could read and write, do simple math maintain their personal hygeine, and show up for work could get a job. Now its very different.   If you want to drop out of society, be my guest, move to Alaska or someplace and you wont have to deal with people. But if you live here, you have an obigation to involve yourself in society. If you don't don't blame others for outcomes you dont like, blame yourselves.  I'm just telling you, we all need to engage and figure out a way to move forward, OR in a very short time, we'll be a nation of 75% unemployed people with absolutely no prospects. Most of those people will be go getters who have every desire to work, *there just wont be anything they can do which somebody will pay them for*. machines will do all of that better and cheaper, or somebody else will get the job because they paid somebody off.
Institute of Supply Management, specifically their Report on Business. Good forward looking indicator.   As far as the weekly report, I'd probably read it, maybe even contribute, but I more of a lurker on this sub. I saw your question and have had some similar experiences so I thought I could help you out.
Which is the right move.   Lowes is not in the business of patching windows vulnerabilities and writing inventory management software. They are in the business of selling hammers. IT is a cost center for them, not a profit center. Cost centres that have nothing to do with your core competency are best outsourced, unless there is some mitigating factor. This is business 101.
&gt;One of the easiest mistakes to make in business is assuming that your own anecdotal experience applies to everyone on earth.  Yep. I'm in marketing, and early on, a good marketer learns to separate what they don't personally like. For example, I don't like exit popups. (The things that come up when you move the mouse to leave a website.) Guess what? They work.
"~~Don't know any specifics of GE or what they did, but they very would could have elected a carryback instead of a carryforward and received a refund.~~  Edit: Ok, I actually went and looked at the income statements for GE. They did *not* get a refund. They did *not* get a check from the government for the refund. This all took place between the balance sheet and the income statement. It goes down like this:  GE has on their books ""Deferred Tax Asset"" for XX billion dollars. This came from a year when they had an operating loss. They are carrying this loss forward as a deduction on their taxes (that's what makes it an asset, it's an asset to the company as it decreases their taxes).  For years, they've been reducing that Deferred Tax Asset account, and adding that amount to their ""Income After Tax"" amount. At the end of 2009, the amount they reduced that Deferred Tax Asset account by just so happened to be larger than the amount they decreased their income by due to taxable income that year.  No one wrote them a check for the difference."
Was Denninger ever not fed up? Dude seems to be in a perpetual state of rage. Kind of amazing that he has time to run a business what with all the blogging, TV interviews, radio shows, book-writing, etc. Much of what he says makes sense but it's hard to take him seriously when his presentation is so juvenile.
Well, Lowes has always had a domestic, friendly, home-grown marketing appeal to them. Being based in Winston-Salem NC makes their brand a have small-American-city, friendly, non-threatening, community vibe. With this move, some of that could leave a lasting impression on some people. Certainly the 120 people and their friends and family who were laid off. And maybe some people will perceive their brand differently after reading this article/headline.
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What about Hulu?  The networks got scared and then freaked out when it turned out to be more than a small niche market that was interested in it. First they ordered new episodes be released on Hulu later and later to try and force people to watch them on TV. Then they took down older episodes to try and force people to buy DVD box sets.  And entire networks that were initially onboard with Hulu have done a re-think and pulled all their shows. Just because it's actually a popular platform. Which is, ironically, not what they wanted Hulu to be.  And going forward, the cable conglomerates are going to be even more powerful players with NBC and G4 (OK, who gives a shit about G4?) now owned by Comcast. Disney, which owns ABC and ESPN, makes a huge portion of their money from their cable and satellite TV businesses. Those guys will never, ever play ball with a pick 'n' play online TV distribution model along the lines of Steam. Not until cable and satellite are no longer profitable. And that is a long, long time away.
Ok smart guy. The point was in NY people who make $112k wouldnt consider themselves affluent and still need help to cover rising costs of higher education. You dont like my janitor example? Look up what a police officer makes at top pay with a little overtime, or a nurse or a fireman. Go see what a foreman in a union labor job makes.
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Oren Ahronson is a well known business owner who holds the degree in MBA from Bar Ilan University. He is a move on of the Siemens General Management program at Duke University. His business experience contains Siemens where he provided as CEO of Siemens in Israel, accountable for its entire portfolio such as Power, Sector, Transport, Healthcare and Interaction.
It isn't a false prediction. It is just totally meaningless. Economies move in cycles so of course we are going to have another recession. This guy gets the benefit of the doubt by not having a specific date while also getting to boast that he is right when an inevitable recession finally strikes. He can't possibly be wrong, which makes his insights worthless.
"Um... Read what I said more closely. I said it wasn't perfect for the long run. But obstructing and causing it to fail is very different from ""fixing"" it. Does he want to fix it? Based on his actions, it doesn't seem like it. Literally the only thing keeping me alive right now is the fact that insurance companies can't exclude you or charge higher due to pre existing conditions. The ONLY way that works is if everyone has insurance. High risk pools are not an option. These supposed republican traitors understand that literally killing off God knows how many Americans just do Trump can say he ""won"" is ridiculous. I'm not a huge fan of the ACA either. I want socialized medicine for all. Why burden businesses to pay for insurance? You want business growth and to foster entrepreneurial growth? Reduce the risk of literally dying from cancer by offering socialized medicine. I am very lucky to be in a situation where I can work for a startup and not have to worry about my Healthcare (for now). Now to answer your questions... Is he for a national health care system? I don't know. It's impossible to know exactly what trump wants. He is purposely elusive and only comes out to bash things when it makes him look good. You never know exactly where he stands so he can always spin the table and said ""OH I never said that"". If he had legislation he wanted to push forward, why doesn't he work with congress to define it and push t forward? No matter how fucked up congress is there's nothing stopping trump from creating and proposing legislation for discussion. But he hadn't done that. Why? We can speculate all day, but I think at thr core if it he has a psychic imbalance. I think mental illness is the wrong connotation. But his spirit is sick and until he is healed, he will continue to damage the people of America. And the fact that he has such a massive following indicates that there is a spiritual and emotional illness spreading like wildfire through this country.
"Is there a reason the author is so ""anti-Amazon?"" Amazon is not a monopoly as the author states incorrectly several times in the article.  It sounds like he is just upset with Amazon for making a very smart business move, and getting into e-books early in the game."
The 'uber' rich because they take chances that others aren't willing to. They also are rich because they make products people like.   Take for instance Apple [or whatever smartphone/computer brand your so privileged to own] ,like them or not they make a great product (determined by the market). If the market didn't like it (Microsoft Zune) then it'll fail.   As for the risk aspect, starting a business takes a TON of risk, and only after much strife and hardships can a business have potential to reach great heights. You think starting Popeyes's was easy? You think franchising is easy? Absolutely not!  You sit there in your privileged high-horse saying the rich should pay because they make something you like and helped to succeed. It's like wanting something for free.   Buy phone -&gt; Others buy phone -&gt; Complain about the rich and vote for UBI -&gt; Get extra $ you wouldn't have gotten otherwise-&gt; Spend that extra $ on the next years phone
I don't follow his logic here:  &gt;Because when workers earn more money, businesses have more customers and hire more workers  How does a business paying its workers more money = getting more customers?  The only connection I can see between the two is that some customers will politically approve of that and move their business over?  Very facile logic, if that's what he means.
Thank you for this point.  I've worked on the front end of union shops as an engineer at several different places. Union workers can be incredibly short sighted, lazy, incompetent and act like asshole. Union leadership can often act as a incendiary agent that inserts itself in-between workers and management. Unions will often act in resistance to the implementation of necessary business practices and block forward progress.  This is because management lets them.  Managers will often complain about how they wish their plants weren't unionized yet won't even stand up for their own rights that have been negotiated into the management side of the contract. At the first sign of resistance they will fold and refuse to fight for what is necessary for the business. They don't engage the workers and leaders on the floor by just implementing policies with no input from the floor.  Any stupid fucking rule or unsustainable compensation that a union has negotiated has a management signature approving it.  Running a union shop can be difficult, but it is no excuse for allowing it to harm the bottom line. Any time a plant needs to relocate to a right-to-work state represents just as much of a failure on management as it does labor.
I think it's going to be a tough sell for their older user base. Most of their clientele is probably not going to jump online to watch the latest CSI/NCIS spinoff. If they want this to succeed, they should go after a younger demographic with shows like How I Met Your Mother and whatnot.
No.   The article needs to have business as its central focus. Not as something which one can extrapolate as a consequence. This is a health article not a business article.  I have, quite sadly, removed it. Even though I liked it and found it informative and hopeful.    It would be great if some day the admins gave us the power to move submissions to more appropriate subreddits rather than remove them. Oh to dream.
Some financial planners would not advise one way or the other on a specific stock without knowing your investment strategy... if you didn't have one, their goal would be to help you develop one and introduce you to a portfolio management framework like Asset Allocation. Is a two of clubs a good card?  Well, that all depends on what is in your hand (diversification) and what game you are playing(investing strategy). One possibility to reduce your basis over time if you would like to hold the stock is to sell calls against it, known as a 'covered-call'.  It can be an intermediate-term (30-60+ months depending on option pricing) trading strategy that may require you to upgrade your brokerage account to allow option trades.  Personally I like this strategy because it makes me feel proactive about my portfolio rather than sitting on the side lines and watching stocks move.
"To speak to this a little more broadly: apart from groups like hedge funds and other investors investing for purely speculative purposes, one of the major purposes of forwards (and, for that matter, futures) for companies in the ""real economy"" is to ""lock in"" a particular price in advance (or to reduce the risk of some kind of investment or transaction). Investopedia defines a currency forward as follows (with a few key points emphasized): [A currency forward is] a binding contract in the foreign exchange market that locks in the exchange rate for the purchase or sale of a currency on a future date. A currency forward is essentially a hedging tool that does not involve any upfront payment. The other major benefit of a currency forward is that it can be tailored to a particular amount and delivery period, unlike standardized currency futures. This can be a major advantage for planning and risk management purposes. For example, if I know I'm going to have to pay $1 million USD in the future and most of my revenue is in Euros, the actual amount I'll have to pay will vary based on the exchange rate between Euros and dollars. Thus, it's very worthwhile for me to be able to ""lock in"" a particular exchange rate so that I know exactly how much I'm going to pay relative to my projected revenue. The goal isn't necessarily to make money off the transaction (maybe they do, maybe they don't) as much as to reduce risk and improve planning ability. The fact that it doesn't involve an up-front payment is also a major advantage. It's usually a bad practice to ""sit on"" cash for a year if you can avoid it. Another key point: savings accounts pay less interest than inflation. If inflation is 3% and your savings account pays 1%, that looks remarkably like a guaranteed 2% loss to me."
"Having worked as a vendor at different Walmart I will say the Whole Foods deal is horrible business, on top of that why is everyone acting. Like amazon makes money on retail? They are yet to make money on it and the only thing that made amazon profitable was AWS and only a few years ago.  Walmart actually makes money, and if they have a better chance to survive and beat amazon than people give them credit for. Amazon on the other hand never been in the physical store gig, it's a whole different ball game out there, they can't even compete on price. From a proven track record business perspective I say amazon is building their business strategy on hope prayer and a string if they think they can turn Whole Foods around from the business model disaster they operate on.  And Walmart has slowly began realizing that to survive they need to become Kroger in their grocery business."", and they been pushing that a lot out there it's working for them.  There's also the issue of market fragmentation, walmart doesn't operate in the same market segment as target or Whole Foods, and they have failed to push their business into places they would be successful. Walmart main competitor isn't target or amazon, it's grocery stores and dollar general."
for full disclosure I'm an Independent Contractor and work with Jeff Richman. @ Neil:  Question 1: How legitimate is this?  If you were never contacted by the company you would never know about the money. Period, end of story. Not trying to be rude but that is the bottom line truth. Look up asset recovery businesses. They are in every city almost. They work for individuals, governments and businesses. Very legitimate business. Question 2: Since this doesn't seem to be the case, how does this company know that I potentially have unclaimed assets to claim?  I understand your concern and the best analogy I can think of to explain this is:  A company's copier breaks down. A copy machine repair man is called. He shows up and opens the copier and studies it intensely and closes it back up. He takes a hammer out of his bag and hits the copier on the side in two different places, twice. The copier starts working. He charges the company owner a $1000.00. The company owner is glad to pay it because without the knowledge of the repair man, his business is not making money. This is the same: The professionals at Keane have specific knowledge about how to, where to and who to ask for these lists. Granted, it's not your business we're talking about here but without them, you get nothing.  2 professionals have advised you to move forward; your brother's accountant and lawyer. Take the money. It costs you nothing. If they want money from you up front or want you to pay for stuff, run.
Amazon is nothing like Microsoft. Microsoft had a patent on a product that was quickly becoming a norm on people's lives. Amazon's business is more of a middleman service. Other businesses sell on Amazon's platform, so it can't be a monopoly. Plus, iirc Amazon barley even makes a profit
This whole article is about politics, not about business. Just because the douche who is trying to make a statement about partisan politics makes a front page of a business section; just because he happens to do business, doesn't make the topic business. It's the ensuing pedantic arguments and quibbles about this and that which really make it about politics. if it were about about business it would be a question of profitability, efficiency or markets, not about some jerk who says he is going to try to ruin the lives of many people because of something that might effect his companies bottom line after ancillary effects make their way down the road to him.
Yeah, but... if you look at his business practices and their global reach, no amount of policy declarations are enough to move the needle away from Trump being a globalist.  He has business ties *everywhere*, and is involved in the global economy regardless of how much his government claims to want to isolate the U.S. Trump, the man, is a globalist through and through.
If you think logically about strategic fit, I'm sure you can come up with tons of plausible M&amp;As. Amazon and Whole Foods clearly makes sense. Would I have thought about it alone? Probably not, but in hindsight it is a good strategic move by Amazon.
The study of technical analysis is generally used (sometimes successfully) to time the markets. There are many aspects to technical analysis, but the simplest form is to look for uptrends and downtrends in the charts. Generally higher highs and higher lows is considered an uptrend. And lower lows and lower highs is considered a downtrend. A trend follower would go with the trend, for example see a dip to the trend-line and buy on the rebound. A simple strategy for this is shown in the chart below: I would be buying this stock when the price hits or gets very close to the trendline and then it bounces back above it. I would then have sold this stock once it has broken through below the trendline. This may also be an appropriate time if you were looking to short this stock. Other indicators could also be used in combination for additional confirmation of what is happening to the price. Another type of trader is called a bottom fisher. A bottom fisher would wait until a break above the downtrend line (second chart) and buy after confirmation of a higher high and possibly a higher low (as this could be the start of a new uptrend). There are many more strategies dealing with the study of technical analysis, and if you are interested you would need to find and learn about ones that suit your investment styles, whether you prefer short term trading or longer term investing, and your appetite for risk. You can develop strategies using various indicators and then paper trade or backtest these strategies. You can also manually backtest a strategy in most charting packages. You can go back in time on the chart so that the right side of the chart shows a date in the past (say one year ago or 10 years ago), then you can click forward one day at a time (or one week at a time if using weekly charts). With your indicators on the chart you can do virtual trades to buy or sell whenever a signal is given as you move forward in time. This way you may be able to check years of data in a day to see if your strategy works. Whatever you do, you need to document your strategies in writing in a written trading or investment plan together with a risk management strategy. You should always follow the rules in your written plan to avoid you making decisions based on emotions.