1 Big time Considering that every minute, as of mid-2014, there are 204 million e-mails sent, 4 million Google searches made and 275,000 tweets published, big data is here to stay. Bond investors would do themselves a favor to click on the trend, says Michael Rierson of Black-Rock. "For fixed income, there are substantial opportunities to apply machine learning and big data techniques," he writes. "Credit investors form views on the relative health of individual issuers in the marketplace and stand to benefit from the long and short insights harvested from the growing masses of firm-specific unstructured data."
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