Newsletter Archive

For the Week of November 14

QuantDesk® Machine Learning Forecast for the Week of November 14 Open in new window The Dow hit a new record high this week as stocks initially reacted negatively to the surprise election results but, similar to Brexit, rebounded sharply to end the week higher by 5.4%...

For the Week of November 7

QuantDesk® Machine Learning Forecast for the Week of November 7 Open in new window Friday’s jobs report recorded the addition of 161K new jobs in October as the unemployment rate dropped to 4.9% and seasonally adjusted hourly wages were up by 2.8%. By all measures,...

For the Week of October 31

QuantDesk® Machine Learning Forecast for the Week of October 31 Open in new window World markets ended slightly lower while the US ended mixed with the DOW marginally higher and the S&P lower. The US dollar strengthened against other currencies as conditions...

For the Week of October 24

QuantDesk® Machine Learning Forecast for the Week of October 24 Open in new window With a growing anticipation of a Fed hike this year and with the unfolding of the Q3 earnings season, US equities ended the week mostly flat. While it is early in the earnings season,...

For the Week of October 17

QuantDesk® Machine Learning Forecast for the Week of October 17 Open in new window I am writing this week’s newsletter from Europe after a series of meetings in London and Paris. It was great to witness firsthand the strong interest in big data and machine learning...

For the Week of October 10

QuantDesk® Machine Learning Forecast for the Week of October 10 Open in new window World markets were mostly unchanged while the S&P ended the week lower by approximately 70bps. News headlines were dominated by four main themes this past week. In the US, we had...