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By Mandeep Rai On May 3, 201707:00 AM Eastern
You may not need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. But when it comes to determining stock market direction, our proprietary Weiss Ratings Market Barometer can definitely help!
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By Jon D. Markman On May 1, 201704:00 PM Eastern
Last week, as the Nasdaq Composite Index crossed 6,000 for the first time, Robert Shiller, a Nobel laureate economist, made the rounds in the financial press.
He’s worried. Valuations are...
By Mike Larson On May 1, 201707:00 AM Eastern
President Donald Trump just unveiled the “biggest tax cut” ever. Or at least, that’s what he and deputies like Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn are...
By Mike Larson On April 28, 201707:00 AM Eastern
When I was a kid, my mom doled out a lot of oatmeal for breakfast. She tried to spice it up with brown sugar or raisins sometime, and of course, it met my nutritional needs. But let’s be honest:...
By Mandeep Rai On April 26, 201707:50 AM Eastern
I want to start today’s column by showing you four charts – each of which illustrates the results from a different investment strategy. The red line in these charts shows the back-tested results...
By Jon D. Markman On April 24, 201702:00 PM Eastern
There is a new calculus in corporate boardrooms. Profits are so yesterday. Now it’s all about vision and great storytelling.
Blame Amazon (AMZN). The online behemoth cracked the code. Despite...
By Mike Larson On April 24, 201707:00 AM Eastern
By the time you read this, we should know the results from the first round of French elections. The vote was designed to narrow the field to two candidates, one of whom French voters will choose...
By Jon D. Markman On April 17, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Last week, the awakening began. In the tawny uptown offices, big banks reported mostly dismal results and warned the economic Trump bump was more smoke than fire.
The contrast from January is...
By Mike Larson On April 17, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Is today’s market volatile or non-volatile? The answer is … yes.
In fact, it reminds me of the famous Schrodinger’s cat experiment. That’s the one where Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger...
By Jon D. Markman On April 5, 201702:00 PM Eastern
U.S. shale oil producers need help.
Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members want to drive the shale producers out of business. So, the OPEC cartel floods the market with cheap crude oil to keep...