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By Jon D. Markman On October 4, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Marketing has changed. Now it’s all about real-time analytics, artificial intelligence and feeding both with massive amounts of data. To succeed you need all three.
Twitter (TWTR) shares...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On September 19, 201612:59 PM Eastern
When there are no ground-breaking developments in the smartphone world, can consumers go back to the old ways of doing things? Like browsing the internet using a personal computer instead of a...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On September 19, 201612:56 PM Eastern
You would think, with 9,542 stocks rated by Weiss, there would be a pretty good number of them that would rate an A+. But that’s not the case. By far. When we ran a Stock Screener on September...
By Jon D. Markman On September 6, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos has a history of getting big trends right and executing well. His investment in Internet streaming and transport logistics are big ideas. Now he’s ready to...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On August 29, 201611:48 AM Eastern
Janet Yellen’s speech last Friday, highlighted a positive outlook for a near future interest rate hike. She noted that solid performance of the labor market, coupled with positive outlook for...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On August 15, 201602:18 PM Eastern
Our latest round of ratings indicates the number of recommended health insurers has gone down by 46.9 percent since Q3, 2013, when there were 130 health insurers rated B+ or higher. Now, in Q1,...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On August 8, 201601:20 PM Eastern
Sometimes companies do the right thing even though they risk shocking their diehard fans. Nike (NKE, Weiss Rating B) did just that last Thursday, when it announced it was dropping golf equipment...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 25, 201612:13 PM Eastern
Weiss Ratings upgraded the safety ratings of 138 property and casualty insurers and downgraded 12, based on first quarter 2016 results. The small number of downgrades and a handful of upgrades...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 18, 201602:00 PM Eastern
[Image: James Duncan Davidson used under license CC by 2.0] Last week was a big week for the internet giant Amazon (AMZN). First, the company reached a milestone on Monday by exceeding Berkshire...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 5, 201601:49 PM Eastern
The preliminary offer by Mondelez International Inc. (MDLZ) to take over Hershey Co. (HSY) wasn’t sweet enough, and the creation of the world’s largest candy company will have to wait, or not...