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By Mike Larson On January 16, 201707:00 AM Eastern
If there’s one thing investors want in this low-rate world, it’s stocks with generous yields. If they can get nice capital gains at the same time, that’s even better.
Now, Weiss Ratings can help...
By Jon D. Markman On January 10, 201707:30 AM Eastern
Robots are perfect villains. Mechanical, metallic and merciless. Now they’re getting a software upgrade. And they’re coming for your job.
Much like the Gilded Age – when industrialization in the...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On January 2, 201707:30 AM Eastern
Oil has been on a tear, there’s no doubt about it -- doubling in price since its low of $26.05 reached in February of this year. But even after doubling, we’re still 57% below the highs (above...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On January 2, 201707:30 AM Eastern
If you’re anything like me, you probably have an email inbox jam-packed with post-holiday offers. 60% off shirts and pants. 70% off arts and crafts stuff for the kids. “Everything must go” deals...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 26, 201607:30 AM Eastern
There’s no doubt the stock market has behaved much differently after the election than it did in the first half of the year. Riskier, formerly dormant small cap stocks awoke in a big way --...
By Jon D. Markman On December 20, 201607:30 AM Eastern
The car business is about to take us all on a wild ride. Autonomous vehicles will challenge industry business models. Electric propulsion will challenge the global economy.
I talked last week...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 19, 201607:30 AM Eastern
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After much debate and anticipation, the Federal Reserve finally hiked interest rates again last week. It raised the benchmark short-term rate to a...
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 The Weiss Ratings Team On December 12, 201603:03 PM Eastern
It was the best of times for some stocks earlier this year. But it’s the worst of times for them now – and that has implications for investors like you.
The year started off with markets mired...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 5, 201602:40 PM Eastern
Last week we said the minor increase in BUY rated stocks should not be viewed as the breaking point from which the ratings would only get better. As expected, the positive development did not...