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 NQ07LM6KLVR7 (Bloomberg) — A rice glut that sent prices slumping more than a year ago is shrinking, just as El Nino arrives to parch paddies across Asia. Global inventories were already heading for an eight-year low, including stockpiles so spoiled that top exporter Thailand may sell most