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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%...
By Jon D. Markman On February 16, 201607:30 AM Eastern
The Nasdaq has been walloped of late, in case you hadn’t noticed.
After being untouchable last year, it is unwatchable this year, down 15% from its December high. Many see this as a...
By Jon D. Markman On January 19, 201607:30 AM Eastern
At the end of last year, we looked closely at the aging of the United States. Now is a good time to take a look at China’s demographics, and how the aging of that country feeds into the growth...