The Traderszone Network

Analyst Simon Erickson is back from the South by Southwest technology festival, where he scouted out developing trends and Rule-Breaking companies. He shares his thoughts about artificial intelligence and the two other big concepts everyone was talking about.

One month ago, in its traditionally cheerful assessment of the US housing market, the NAR’s Larry Yun snuck in an unexpected warning:

“Home prices ascending near or above double-digit appreciation aren’t healthy – especially considering the fact that household income and wages are barely rising.”

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Authored by Hugo Salinas Price via Plata.com,

It was 1790 and the revolutionary National Assembly in Paris was worried.

Complaints were reaching the Assembly from all over France, that business was stagnant, sales were down, people were without work, and there was a great scarcity of money.

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Netflix has been lowering the quality of its videos to most wireless networks, the WSJ reported.

Building a winning trading system is like conducting a
science experiment.
Remember those heady days in science class at high school? Grotty
old Bunsen burners and fruitless attempts to memorise the periodic table are
not the only things I recall.

Via ConvergEx’s Nick Colas,

Our latest quarterly report on the recreational marijuana business shows a vibrant and growing industry as more states legalize the drug.

We survey numerous stores in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon to track how a newly legalized market develops its cost structure and product mix. Our Colorado contacts reported steady pricing and customer traffic compared to three months ago, and brought in $576 million in retail marijuana sales last year – 84% more than in 2014.

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Microsoft execs have been meeting with private equity firms mulling bids for Yahoo and may offer financing, Re/code reports, citing sources.