Friday ... if I had known it was gonna be like this I wouldn't have bothered.

Ahh well.

Here is an interesting little piece for this yawny sorta session :

  • Last year the Federal Reserve Board analyzed over 900,000 news stories
  • According to the Federal Reserve Board, the secrets of prices yet to come may be bundled up in the text of news reports. Using neural network based artificial intelligence algorithms and controlling for neutral news stories, the board was able to predict stock market returns up to thirteen weeks after the stories had been published

I think it's a sales-type piece (looks like the company is called Vector), but diverting nonetheless ...

Link ... Here it is