By Juan M. Villaverde On June 13, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Blockchain is the new buzzword CEOs and policymakers use to inject energy into their otherwise-boring press releases. And some of them are very serious about it …
Fortune 500 companies like IBM,...
By Jon D. Markman On June 13, 201806:23 AM Eastern
Stocks swam against the tide on Tuesday, before finally wriggling gently higher near the close — an expression of ennui following the flaccid Trump-Kim summit in Singapore.
The U.S. and DPRK...
By Jon D. Markman On June 12, 201802:01 PM Eastern
Equity markets were chill Tuesday following the U.S.-North Korea summit and ahead of decisions on monetary policy later this week by the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.
Through...
By Sean Brodrick On June 12, 201812:54 PM Eastern
Boy. I leave town for a couple weeks, and all heck breaks loose.
I don’t mean in your portfolio. I mean on the world stage. We seem to be inching closer to a trade hullaballoo with Europe and...
By Jon D. Markman On June 12, 201804:59 AM Eastern
Stocks took a while to achieve ignition on Monday. But they finally got rolling mid-morning, and held firm until softening slightly in the last 15 minutes of play.
The Dow Jones Industrials were...
By Jon D. Markman On June 11, 201803:03 PM Eastern
Stocks took a while to achieve ignition Monday. But they finally got rolling mid-morning and were comfortably ahead going into the last 90 minutes of play.
Leaders are shares of healthcare and...
By Juan M. Villaverde On June 11, 201808:55 AM Eastern
While the EOS community continues to work on finalizing its MainNet release, we have some serious questions about its centralization that remain unanswered.
EOS is a still great project. It...
By Mike Larson On June 11, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I don't know about you. But the "Poltergeist" movies scared the you-know-what out of me when I was younger. Especially that scene in the sequel where Carol Anne's toy phone starts ringing, she...
By Tony Sagami On June 11, 201807:55 AM Eastern
“It took about 10 years from when the World Wide Web [started]
… to when my mother started hearing about email.”
— Joseph Lubin, Ethereum founder
Do the wild, unpredictable price swings of...
By Jon D. Markman On June 11, 201805:06 AM Eastern
Before embarking on our Monday issue, here is a summary of our Markman’s Strategic Options trading action in June so far.
June 1: Sold half position in Microsoft July $100 calls for a 51.8%...