BUILDING PROFIT FROM DATA
Tammer Kamel , CEO and founder of Quandl
“ What ’ s happening day-to-day , week-to-week , month-to-month , year-to-year is extremely pertinent to any investor who uses macroeconomic information to colour their investment decisions .
“ In the hedge fund industry , where we sell most of our data , there ’ s an entire subset of hedge funds called global macro funds which take investment decisions solely on the basis of macro-economic information .
“ For construction activity , they tend to use information which gets
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