By Mandeep Rai On April 12, 201707:00 AM Eastern
If you remember a few months ago, I wrote a piece covering the history of recessions and expansions – one that said the average length of an expansion is 7.6 years. The longest, just prior to the...
By Jon D. Markman On April 10, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Tesla (TSLA) is suddenly more valuable than Ford (F) and General Motors (GM). And longtime bears are losing their minds.
You have to feel for them. At first glance, it doesn’t make sense....
By Mike Larson On April 10, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Late Thursday night, U.S. military forces launched 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield. The strike came in response to a chemical weapons attack that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad unleashed...
By Jon D. Markman On April 7, 201702:00 PM Eastern
You may have heard the axiom “software is eating the world.” It’s the idea that digital efforts (i.e. streaming movies) are replacing physical things (i.e. movies in the theater).
Google is...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On April 7, 201708:00 AM Eastern
The Federal Reserve was already on a rate-hiking path heading into this week – and the latest jobs data suggests they won’t stray from it.
Specifically, ADP said Wednesday that the U.S. economy...
By Mike Larson On April 7, 201707:00 AM Eastern
I’ve been plenty bullish on a wide range of sectors – including financials, infrastructure, and defense. But autos are definitely not one of them. That’s because more than a year ago, my...
By Jon D. Markman On April 5, 201702:00 PM Eastern
U.S. shale oil producers need help.
Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members want to drive the shale producers out of business. So, the OPEC cartel floods the market with cheap crude oil to keep...
By Mandeep Rai On April 5, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The President of China, Xi Jinping, is poised to visit President Trump at his Mar-A-Lago hotel resort later this week, and the highest priority on the agenda will likely be trade deals. This will...
By Jon D. Markman On April 3, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Bloomberg View columnist Matt Levine always does a great job making sense of the complicated world of investment banking, hedge funds and credit.
Last week, he tackled a February working paper...
By Mike Larson On April 3, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Donald Trump’s economic policies get a lot of credit for the recent market surge. And there’s no questioning his positive influence on everything from defense to infrastructure to financial...
