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China’s rehab centers are no strangers to using technology to treat addiction. The latest approach, however, is rather unusual. Shanghai drug rehab facilities (not pictured here) are trialing a combination of VR, eye tracking and skin sensors to both aid in recovery and gauge its effectiveness. Recovering addicts have to look at images and video […]
David McNew/Getty The April jobs report showed that the unemployment rate fell to a new 17-year low of 3.9%. A less obvious metric — the gap between this rate and the underemployment rate that includes discouraged workers — has also been shrinking since the financial crisis. It backs up claims by several companies that skilled workers are […]
Getty Images / Mario Tama The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, spiked as much as 90% on Monday. It’s on pace to finish with its largest single-day increase since the dotcom bubble. The price swings are a change of pace for a stock market that’s sat mostly unperturbed for months. The stock market is finally […]
Paul Morigi/Getty Images The Buffett Indicator is the ratio of a country’s stock market capitalization to the overall GDP of the country. If the stock market is below 50% of the GDP, it is too low. Between 75% and 90%, the market is about right. Above 115%, it is overvalued on a relative basis. In late […]
IF She Will Reign is showing any signs of a Golden Slipper hangover, trainer Gary Portelli is yet to pick up on them, declaring the filly is “flying” ahead of her return at Moonee Valley. RACE WATCH: DAVO’S RANDWICK TIPS HOT TIPS: WEEKEND BEST BETS THE EARLY OIL: MOONEE VALLEY With Slipper rival Houtzen defecting […]
Courtesy Vanderbilt University One of Wall Street’s most popular positions is betting that nothing will happen in the markets. Every day, traders across the country place bets that volatility will continue to decrease as stocks continue to climb higher and higher. And for the most part, they’ve profited from those bets. Since the CBOE’s volatility […]
Reuters/Nick Oxford The Bureau of Labor Statistics stressed Friday that Hurricane Harvey had “no discernible effect” on the August jobs report. It had conducted the survey for the report during the week of the 12th, before the storm made landfall in Texas. But the economic impact of what could be the costliest storm in US […]
Alper Çuğun/Flickr When the majority of Americans experience stress symptoms every day, it’s no wonder that more and more job seekers are searching for jobs that pay well but offer a low-stress or low-pressure day-to-day. If you’ve already tried to balance work and life at your current job, it may be time to start interviewing […]
Information is a good thing, but sometimes too much information can be overwhelming. One of those situations might be when trying to wring the most out of a high-horsepower mid-engine supercar like the new McLaren Super Series model, the 720S. W’re guessing here. So at the press of a button, the driver can hide most […]
