The Bloomberg report almost commends Alibaba management for their sober analysis and desire to look out for small-time investors.

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It said analysis is likely to take some time while forensic and other tests are carried out.

BBC: Cpl David O'Connor, Cpl Channing Day

It is the ability it gives a few large firms to control the market for short periods of time, sucking investors into positions, or driving them out, not based on careful thought or analysis, but in emotional reaction to a sudden temporary intraday rally created by a wave of buy programs, or a sudden intraday decline created by a wave of sell programs.

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To find out how much time phones spend keeping one ear open, Shin and Zhang conducted an extensive trace-based analysis of real WiFi networks.

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While those that argue that it took QE1 5 months to take hold, how can they maintain any form of intellectual honesty in their analysis when the market topped out 5 months after QE2, especially when it was initiated at a time when the market was already in a strong uptrend?

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