Новости за 22.04.2012

The new investor bywords are big data. Initial public offerings last week for both Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) and Proofpoint (Nasdaq: PFPT) were smash hits because of it. Established companies like International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, reported better-than-expected quarterly reports because enterprises ordered more servers and software. Last month, two other giants, Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), did the same.

Electrical power in India is controlled by one company, the 90-percent state-owned behemoth Coal India Ltd., which also happens to be the largest coal-mining firm on the planet. Two years ago, when CIL went public, shares jumped 40 percent on the first day of trading; the IPO was one of the biggest Indian markets had ever seen. CIL controls 80 percent of coal production in the nation, giving it dominance in a country where coal provides for more than half of the electricity.