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By Remi Lukosiunas On August 1, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The Dodd-Frank Act – Three words that make the financial industry cringe. Banks, credit unions, and the big dogs on Wall Street have been struggling to keep up with the law, and fighting it on...
By Jon D. Markman On July 24, 201702:00 PM Eastern
There is a new theory making the rounds on Wall Street.
It holds that historically low volatility is the product of smarter investors who are armed with more information.
It is a cool theory....
By Jon D. Markman On July 10, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Passively managed exchange-traded funds are clobbering the performance of actively managed mutual funds this year. And brainy portfolio managers are starting to freak out.
A recent piece in The...
By Jon D. Markman On June 26, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Oil prices have crashed from $52 to $42 in the last month. And China’s the culprit, say Wall Street analysts.
China is an easy mark: Ghost cities, capital flight, shadow banking, rising dissent...
By Jon D. Markman On February 21, 201707:30 AM Eastern
You probably haven’t heard about precision medicine. That’s fine, it wasn’t even possible ten years ago.
But now we’re entering the new Gilded Age — and suddenly researchers are using it to...
By Jon D. Markman On December 13, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Supercomputers and “big data” analytics are among the high-end tools that the best hedge fund managers depend upon today. No organization uses them better than the creative wizards at Renaissance...
By Jon D. Markman On June 7, 201607:30 AM Eastern
So here we are in June. Can you believe the year is almost half over? Some 156 days have already clicked past, and there are 209 more to go. If there was something you really wanted to accomplish...
By Jon D. Markman On May 3, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Hand-wringing among analysts and investors was the gesture of choice last week after Apple (AAPL) reported that it is no longer growing at record rates. I got the sense that Wall Street both...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On April 18, 201607:00 AM Eastern
Starbucks (SBUX) rolled out its new rewards program along with an updated mobile app on Tuesday, April 12. The rewards will now be based on the amount of money a customer spends and not the...
By Jon D. Markman On March 8, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Here are some semi-random items that should help you think about what’s happening in the markets at this time.
— The major indexes are off to a stunning start in March, with the S&P 500 up 3.5%...