There’s a new source in town for those who want to learn R and it’s a good, old-fashioned book called Financial Analytics with R: Building a Laptop Laboratory for Data Science.  Written by Mark Bennett and Dirk Hugen, it hits the shelves in the U.K. in September and the U.S. in November.

Markets are reeling today in response to the mere suggestion by one Fed governor that a rate hike might be in the offing when the Fed meets next week. Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren said that there is a “reasonable case” for a rate hike.

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On my last job interview on the R developer position the recruiting manager asked me What every R package must contain? Probably it was a trigger to conversation about the best practices in the R package development process, including roxygen2 or devtools.

The 7th largest container shipping line on the planet is bankrupt. The media has focused on the sexy things. You know, like what will happen to those big ships that Hanjin (OTC:HNJSF) had via charter, and the impact on world trade and the global supply chain.

During the last few years nearly all economists have been predicting that US treasury yields had to rise from historical low levels. Time has proven that their predictions were wrong.

Shares of oil and gas simulation software provider Computer Modelling Group (OTC:CMDXF) or “CMG” have been treading water in recent years as the decline in energy prices temper sales expectations and dampen the short-term outlook.

This article appeared first on The Stock Market Blueprint Blog. By studying the long-term performance of professional sports teams, investors can gain a sense of a stock’s future returns. Mean reversion controls stock market returns as much as the outcome of sports competitions.

The Rate Of Change In U.S. Energy Consumption Chart by Visual Capitalist The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays.

This monthly series gives fundamental scores by sector for companies in the S&P 500 index (NYSEARCA:SPY). I follow chosen fundamental factors for every sector and compare them to a historical baseline, so as to create a synthetic dashboard with a Value Score (V-score) and a Quality Score (Q-score).