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SP500 company specific data
Hello! I hope this question is in the right subforum, but if not, feel free to move it to the correct place. For my thesis I will need the Company specific returns of (for example) SP500 companies as well as their market caps and possibly betas (which I can calculate out of the data if needed,...
Columbia University MA in Statistics?
Hello, What's their rep in the finance field? Anyone here graduate from the program? What's their post-graduation job placement like?
Can The Big Game Predict Big Profits For Wall Street?
When it comes the Super Bowl, everybody has their traditions. Whether it’s making a favorite homemade dip, a gathering of friends at a particular sport’s bar, or just simply watching the commercials. Heck, even WS has one, the Super Bowl Market Indicator which has an 80% accuracy predicting the...
Sell side S&T question
I know several roles on the buy side that are heavy on statistics, econometrics, optimization, time series analysis but wondering what roles exactly on the sell-side esp in S&T and/or Research Strategy use these methods often. Here's a few desks / roles I had in mind but they probably don't exactly...
Do you trust unemployment numbers?
It's no secret that I don't pray to the statistical gods. There is just way too much that gets lost in translation and transition between eternally tardy numerical data and real time. That having been said, a a statistic I pay close attention to gives us signs for optimism today...or does it?...
What is a recession?
What is a recession? I no longer know...not quite sure I ever did. The gap between reality and perception has widened expansively as of late. According to our friends over at NBER the "Great Recession" ended in June 2009. Like many of you, I can regurgitate a few different textbook definitions with...
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