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By Jon D. Markman On August 19, 202001:00 PM Eastern
Federal prosecutors are rushing to bring an antitrust case against Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL, Rated “B-”), the parent company of Google. Oddly, the haste may be good news for the search...
By David Dittman On August 18, 202004:17 PM Eastern
The thing about Twitter is that it holds a lot of good stuff.
On the other hand, the social media platform holds a lot of bad stuff, too.
Well, this is good Twitter, because it’s a solid...
Chainlink (LINK, Availability/Liquidity Grade “B”) has gotten big, fast.
Maybe a little too fast. LINK is up more than 36% over the past week and 126% for the past month. It traded as high as...
By Sean Brodrick On August 15, 202005:00 AM Eastern
What a wild couple of weeks it’s been for gold.
First, the yellow metal pushed over its previous all-time high of $1,923, and, on Aug. 7, it clocked an intraday high of $2,089 per ounce. Then...
By Jon D. Markman On August 14, 202001:00 PM Eastern
The digital and physical world collided Monday. For once, brick and mortar won out.
The headline story was a Wall Street Journal report that Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN, Rated “B”) and Simon...
By David Dittman On August 11, 202004:42 PM Eastern
Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He’s been a professor of history at Harvard, New York University and at the University of Oxford. His books...
By Mike Larson On August 5, 202005:11 PM Eastern
Fifty-four companies defaulted on their debts in the second quarter of 2020. That was the most for any three-month period since 2009 in the wake of the Great Recession.
It gets worse. The...
By Jon D. Markman On August 3, 202001:13 PM Eastern
Pro-growth policies are nice, but corporate managers mostly want politicians to stay out of the way.
On Saturday, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT, Rated “B+”) and ByteDance, the Chinese parent of...
By Kelly Green On July 29, 202004:00 PM Eastern
Have you ever been tent camping?
The stars can be seen for miles without the light pollution from the city. You can hear every insect and creature for miles around in the absence of highway...
By Jon D. Markman On July 29, 202002:30 PM Eastern
“We’re from Washington, and we are here to help.”
A throwaway line from a bygone political era … but it still rings true and is still just as dangerous.
The New York Times reported Tuesday...