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By Mike Larson On August 14, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The North Korea crisis finally got the market’s attention last week. On Thursday alone, the Nasdaq Composite Index tanked more than 135 points, the CBOE VIX Index surged 42%, and “safe haven”...
By Gavin Magor On June 22, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Insurance companies typically don’t elicit much sympathy from the public. We see them as either predatory, thieves or, at the very least, on par with lawyers as businesses that we rarely choose to...
By Remi Lukosiunas On June 6, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The U.S. banking industry is shrinking dramatically – and that means consumers have fewer options when it comes to finding an institution to do business with. There were only 5,856 federally...
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 Mike Larson On March 31, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Today is the last day of the first quarter. That makes it a great time to catch up on ETF performance. Which ETFs shined in the first three months of the year? Which crashed and burned? And what...
By Mandeep Rai On March 8, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Small cap biotechnology stocks are some of my favorite investments. The innovations and cures you can find companies working on, and the rocketing of their stock prices once approvals are...
By Mike Larson On March 3, 201707:00 AM Eastern
When Donald Trump talks, stock markets listen. That much is clear from the gigantic ramp-fest that took place on Wednesday after the new president delivered his first State of the Union-style...
By Mike Larson On February 24, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Can this market really just keep going up? I’ve heard and seen several versions of that question on TV, online, and even here in the hallways at Weiss Ratings.
So what’s my take? Sure, we’re...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On February 4, 201707:00 AM Eastern
We’ve seen an incredible drought in new bank formation over the last six years. Strict regulations put in place to prevent another financial meltdown after the Great Recession made it quite...
By Mike Larson On January 30, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Donald Trump just promised to build a wall along the Mexican border, one brick or block of concrete at a time. What exactly will it look like? How much will it cost? Who will pay for it? Will it...