By Mandeep Rai On September 13, 201707:00 AM Eastern
You’ve heard me talk about our Weiss Ratings Model plenty of times. But what is it really? How does it work? And most importantly, why should you care?
That’s a lot of questions, and I’ll start...
By Sean Brodrick On September 12, 201710:51 AM Eastern
This has been a wild and wonderful couple of weeks for lithium miners. You own three of them, and they’re all blasting off so fast, North Korea’s missile program can only look on with envy.
For...
By Gavin Magor On September 12, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Hurricane Harvey recently hammered Texas, causing losses that could eventually total tens (or even hundreds) of billions of dollars. Now in Hurricane Irma’s wake, many are wondering about...
By Mike Larson On September 11, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have together caused billions of dollars in property damage, disrupted countless businesses, and tragically, cost dozens of lives.
But as I wrote recently, the...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On September 8, 201708:00 AM Eastern
As the floodwaters recede from Hurricane Harvey, what’s left behind in Houston and the Texas coast is devastating in both scale and cost: Hundreds of thousands of homes damaged or destroyed, a...
By Mike Larson On September 8, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Last week, I wrote about Hurricane Harvey. I suggested investors could “do well by doing good” by investing in companies whose products will help fuel the rebuilding and recovery process in Texas...
By Gavin Magor On September 7, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Devastating, and expensive, the damage in Texas from Hurricane Harvey will fall mainly on the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as I said last week. Catastrophe funding will also kick in for...
By Jon D. Markman On September 6, 201702:00 PM Eastern
There is a revolution underway. You can’t see it. You are not supposed to. But it’s happening, and the implications are profound.
Credit Amazon.com (AMZN). The online giant changed the way...
By Mandeep Rai On September 6, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The market is getting buffeted by two powerful forces: The geopolitical fallout from North Korea’s aggressive nuclear test and worries over major economic and insurance losses tied to Hurricane...
