published Mar 28th 2017, 8:28 am, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — Neural networks Consider a quant searching for factors that might push a stock over a benchmark index. Today an analyst has to manually select factors like price-earnings ratios to test. A quant using deep learning gives the neural

©2015 Bloomberg News NZ3RLI6K50XV (Bloomberg) — As commodity prices tumble to the lowest since the global financial crisis, the dividends paid by the world’s largest oil producers and miners look increasingly hard to justify. Take the world’s largest 500 companies by sales. Of the 20 expected to pay the highest