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Quandl Acquired by Nasdaq to Advance Use of Alternative Data

It has been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to reach out to our entire base of over 400,000 users across the globe. Today I’m delighted to announce that Quandl has been acquired by Nasdaq. Our mission has always been to enable data-driven investing, and now, with Nasdaq’s institutional backing, we will be...

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QUANDL NEWS Dec 06 2018

Quandl: the next chapter

A lot has changed in the last five years. In 2013 when we launched the Quandl website, we were motivated by a simple vision: making data easy to find and easy to use. It sounds obvious today, but at the time it was quite revolutionary; those were the days of FTP, and CD-ROM, and PDF data tables. Today of course every major data vendor has a web front-end, and a search interface, and a cloud API, and integrations with end-user apps to make data consumption easy. In 2015 when we launched the Quandl data marketplace, we were motivated by a...

UNCATEGORIZED Nov 07 2018

Cutting-edge Quandl-CLS dataset opens new forex frontiers

More than 200 attendees - representing major FX trading desks, liquidity and execution providers, and buy-side firms - joined the Quandl-CLS “New Frontiers in FX Data” webinar to learn how the new datasets from forex settlement giant CLS have been changing forex trading, risk management, execution, and more. Quandl Chief Data Officer Abraham Thomas and special guest Michael Melvin, Executive Director of the Master of Finance program at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management and former senior executive at BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors, led an engaging discussion on how we can finally use data to gain true insight...

Alternative data sheds light on Tesla’s mysterious delivery numbers
ALTERNATIVE DATA Oct 04 2018

Alternative data sheds light on Tesla’s mysterious delivery numbers

Tesla’s strong Q3 delivery numbers - more than doubling from the prior quarter - was good news for the company. But a new report on mysterious lots of Tesla vehicles appearing across America has fanned speculation that those numbers may not be what they seem. Quandl’s alternative data also indicates that there may be more than meets the eye. UPDATE (October 26, 2018): The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FBI has stepped up a criminal investigation of whether Tesla is misstating production figures. On Tuesday, October 2, Tesla announced a doubling of deliveries in the third quarter to...

ALTERNATIVE DATA Apr 24 2018

Corporate Aviation Intelligence: The Sky’s the Limit

I’m pleased to announce the launch of Quandl’s Corporate Aviation Intelligence (CAI) product. This institutional-grade product tracks corporate air travel to yield actionable insights into M&A, corporate expansion, competitive intelligence and other market-moving events. TAKEOFF In late January 2017 Actelion's stock jumped by more than 20%, taking the market by surprise. Everyone, that is, except for three hedge funds. Och-Ziff, Eton Park and Elliott Management are said to have tracked J&J’s private jet landing near pharmaceutical company Actelion’s Switzerland headquarters in mid-January. Days later J&J announced a $30 billion acquisition of Actelion, resulting in $300M in upside for these three...

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ALTERNATIVE DATA Apr 06 2018

UPDATE: Iron Ore in a Meltdown?

UPDATE: We recently published an updated report on our iron ore monthly insights, featuring our Q1 estimates for each company. Our monthly report is released two to three weeks earlier than public company data. We currently distributed our monthly report on FactSet and Thomson Reuters.  Back in November, the Chinese government imposed regulations on steel production to curb the pollution in areas surrounding Beijing. We predicted that the restrictions would pull the players in iron ore industry in opposing directions: While the general reduction of steel production would reduce the overall demand for iron ore, the intense crackdown on domestic...

Searching for an Edge with Alternative Data
ALTERNATIVE DATA Mar 29 2018

Searching for an Edge with Alternative Data

When Johnson & Johnson agreed to buy Actelion for $30 billion on January 26, 2017, its stock soared almost 20 percent. The deal was the largest in J&J’s 130-year history. This was good news for Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC (who had built a stake worth about USD 766 million), Eton Park Capital Management (whose bet was almost USD 500 million) and Elliott Management Corp. (USD 200 million). The three funds, however, did not make their bets blind; they had backed up their belief by good old-fashioned sleuthing: They tracked J&J’s private jet movements with alternative data. According to Bloomberg,...

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