http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis. http://www.physorg.com/news178349551.html Other Sciences Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:28:40 EST news178349551 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average, among the world?s most closely watched stock indexes, closed above the 10,000-point mark last week for the first time since October 2008, a milestone that made news around the world. http://www.physorg.com/news175195471.html Other Sciences Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:28:42 EST news175195471 (PhysOrg.com) -- How do people choose a name for their child? Researchers have long noted that the overall popularity of a name exerts a strong influence on people's preferences -- more popular names, such as Robert or Susan, are more frequent and, by their sheer ubiquity, drive more parents to adopt a similar choice. However, new research by psychologists at New York University and Indiana University, Bloomington suggests that the change in popularity of a name over time increasingly influences naming decisions in the United States. Like momentum traders in the stock market, parents today appear to favor names that have recently risen in popularity relative to names that are on the decline. http://www.physorg.com/news174633865.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:27:37 EST news174633865 Facebook is tracking how happy people are in the United States. Mother's Day was predictably upbeat, according to a Gross National Happiness index graph on the popular social networking service's blog on Tuesday, but for reasons unknown people's moods evidently sank days later. http://www.physorg.com/news174057519.html Technology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:50:01 EST news174057519 (PhysOrg.com) -- October ushers in the fourth quarter, falling leaves, football and in some, now infamous, years, financial meltdowns. Is the tenth month of the year more prone to stock market crashes than others? Economics professor Stephen Williamson says there's little evidence to support that the next big crash will occur this month just because the last three major crashes happened in October. http://www.physorg.com/news173986149.html Other Sciences Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:40:01 EST news173986149 (AP) -- Shanda Games Ltd., a Chinese video game company, raised $1 billion Friday in the largest initial public offering of the year. http://www.physorg.com/news173122721.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:30:01 EST news173122721 One reason for extreme fluctuations in the stock market is herding. http://www.physorg.com/news172740391.html Other Sciences Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:30:03 EST news172740391 (PhysOrg.com) -- Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market crash of 1929 accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, causing what might otherwise have been a bad recession to slip into the Great Depression, a UCLA economist concludes in a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news170659233.html Other Sciences Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:20:01 EST news170659233 Germany's solar power industry, until recently the world leader in the technology, is facing an unprecedented crisis, analysts say, outshone by cheaper competitors from Asia, most notably Chinese firms. http://www.physorg.com/news169792072.html Technology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:20:01 EST news169792072 Norges Bank surprised most experts by cutting the interest rate by as much as 1.75 percentage points during the final interest rate meeting in 2008. Surprise interest rate changes like this, so-called interest rate shocks, can cause major changes in stock prices.  http://www.physorg.com/news168627482.html Other Sciences Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:20:04 EST news168627482 (AP) -- Online restaurant reservation service OpenTable Inc. proved there's still an appetite for new stock offerings despite the sour economy. http://www.physorg.com/news162155937.html Technology Thu, 21 May 2009 20:19:37 EST news162155937 Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corp. announced an annual net loss of 1.3 billion dollars, its first ever, due to a slump in sales, but it forecast a return to profit this year. http://www.physorg.com/news160028099.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:18:26 EST news160028099 (AP) -- Investors don't seem to totally buy Intel Corp.'s proclamation that slumping personal computer sales have "bottomed out." http://www.physorg.com/news159011404.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:51:24 EST news159011404 As the Credit Crunch continues to affect the worldwide markets the need for efficient methods to combat financial fraud has become more important than ever. Now researchers at the University of Sunderland are working on a smart computer that they believe will be able to detect insider trading fraud within the stock exchange almost instantly. http://www.physorg.com/news158490138.html Technology Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:04:13 EST news158490138 There's a reason Wall Street resembles a rocket experiment gone wrong: rocket scientists helped make it happen. http://www.physorg.com/news158302297.html Other Sciences Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:52:05 EST news158302297 The socioeconomic characteristics of people who play state lotteries are similar to investors who pick stocks with a lottery quality--high risk with a small potential for high return, and just like the lottery, returns on average are lower for those who invest this way in the stock market, research from The University of Texas at Austin shows. http://www.physorg.com/news154869402.html Other Sciences Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:17:20 EST news154869402 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Massey University have developed a new way to predict stock markets that has been recognised with an award from New Zealand finance specialists. http://www.physorg.com/news154351114.html Other Sciences Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:19:31 EST news154351114 Congress needs to reform flawed 401(k) laws that could push back retirement for millions of Americans whose savings have collapsed along with the stock market, a University of Illinois elder law expert says. http://www.physorg.com/news144332314.html Other Sciences Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:18:34 EST news144332314