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Channels, an app for watching live television through the new Apple TV, has received a substantial update with timeshifting support. The app, which first launched in December, works in conjunction with SiliconDust HDHomeRun networked TV tuners. Users plug an antenna into the tuner, then connect the tuner to a Wi-Fi router. This setup allows for streaming live channels to other devices around the house, using companion apps such as Channels for Apple TV. Channels is the first app for HDHomeRun tuners to support timeshifting without complicated plugins. The app begins storing up video when users first tune into a channel,…

If early returns hold, 2016 is shaping up as another year where the bond market’s demise has been greatly exaggerated. Numerous forecasts around Wall Street warned investors away from fixed income, particularly longer duration U.S. government issues. The thinking was that the Fed’s rate-hiking trajectory would push up Treasury yields, eroding prices and sending investors to bond-like equities. That theory has pretty much blown up in January. Read MoreGoldman: Recession fear overblown, 11% gain on way Wobbly economic growth coupled with slumping oil prices and contagion fears from a hard landing in China substantially lowered expectations for rate hikes. With…

Closely watched market strategist Jim Paulsen said Monday he’s more optimistic on stocks, but wary about whether the market has bottomed. “My guess is we’re going to break back down again yet; and break 1,800 [on the S&P 500], get everyone convinced we’re headed for recession, scare everyone it’s a bear market,” the chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I don’t think we’ll go a lot lower than that. We’ll be at 16 times trailing earnings at around that level,” he continued. “I think that’s a very sustainable multiple, even if we’re facing higher interest…

“Buy low and sell high” is a simple investing adage that not only makes basic sense, but is backed by historical data. But this philosophy is not just for fundamental investors. Technical analysts use statistics to find “overbought” and “oversold” stocks based on their trading history. Using Kensho, a quantitative analytics tool used by hedge funds, we ran a screen to search for the most oversold and overbought stocks in the S&P 500. We looked for the stocks that historically have had the biggest future five-day returns after reaching this oversold state. Conversely, the overbought names have the lowest five-day…

As oil prices tumble, stocks have followed. The relationship between crude and stocks, which has taken center stage in this tumultuous new year, is “unwarranted,” Citi chief U.S. equity strategist Tobias Levkovich said Monday “I think the relationship between oil and the markets are overdone and I think the reason that people focus on it is they’re thinking about it as a measure of global economic activity, which isn’t really fair given what’s going on in terms of supply and demand disequilibrium, which would put out more supply than demand,” he told CNBC’s “Worldwide Exchange.” Read MoreSnowstorm can’t save oil…

Markets are, inherently, disagreements over the shape of the future and the right price for a piece of it today. But no other year has begun with quite as searing an argument as 2016, with nearly a 7 percent loss in the S&P 500 index in three weeks — and that’s after a nearly 5 percent bounce in the final 2½ days. From Dec. 29 until about noon last Wednesday, the value of the U.S. stock market sank by 13 percent in 13½ trading days. A year ago, after what then passed for a tough January, the S&P 500 was…

Over 60 Android games hosted on Google Play had Trojan-like functionality that allowed them to download and execute malicious code hidden inside images. The rogue apps were discovered by researchers from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web and were reported to Google last week. The researchers dubbed the new threat Android.Xiny.19.origin. Malicious Android apps were a common occurrence on Google Play until a few years ago when Google implemented more rigorous checks. This included an automated scanner called Bouncer that used emulation and behavior-based detection. Bypassing Bouncer detection is not impossible, but is hard enough to keep most malware creators away.…

Investing has reached the point where it is at war. The opposing sides are the fundamentals versus the market, and Jim Cramer hasn’t seen it this bad in ages. The averages bounced back nicely on Friday, with the Dow rebounding triple digits. But, despite the rally, Cramer thinks the fundamentals of the market do not indicate that it is any better off than it was before. Cramer’s concerns all boiled down to three topics: the strong dollar, the price of oil and earnings. Getty Images A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The strong dollar…

There’s nothing more frustrating than dealing with slow Internet at home, especially when you’re paying a steep premium for a fast connection speed. Washington, DC-basedReddit user and Comcast customer AlekseyP came up with an interesting solution for this problem. Instead of wasting time calling up Comcast over the issue, he is using the power of Raspberry Pi to complain to the Internet Service Provider over Twitter under the name @A_Comcast_User. Every hour, AlekseyP’s Raspberry Pi (he didn’t specify which model) runs Internet speed tests and then stores that data. If his Internet speed drops below 50 megabits per second, the…

Businesses were more likely to boost pay in the fourth quarter and confidence in U.S. growth continued, even as sales and profit growth flattened. A quarterly National Association for Business Economics survey released Monday found that 49 percent of firms reported raising salaries or wages in the quarter. Of the 148 respondents, 47 percent said sales rose in the same period, slightly down from 51 percent in the previous quarter. The survey was conducted in December, one day after the Federal Reserve voted to raise its interest rate target for the first time in more than nine years. The results…