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By Remi Lukosiunas On July 18, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Since the financial crisis of 2007-2009, government agencies have taken a number of steps to ensure that banks can weather another economic downturn. In a perfect world, the next downturn...
By Gavin Magor On July 13, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Adequate capital is the most important factor when it comes to analyzing any insurer. That’s because capital levels can indicate what might happen to a company if the going gets tough and policy...
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 Mandeep Rai On July 5, 201707:00 AM Eastern
There’s been a hope trade since the election that growth is going to come back, but we’ve seen little definitive policies accompany the promise of lower taxes, infrastructure plans, profit...
By Gavin Magor On June 29, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Last week I wrote about Property & Casualty insurers that began operation within the last five years. I outlined that of the rated ones, a majority are considered vulnerable, with a “D” or “E”...
By Jon D. Markman On June 28, 201702:00 PM Eastern
After Amazon’s (AMZN) announcement that it was buying Whole Foods Market Inc. (WFM) for $13.7 billion in cash, shares of both companies went up. (Enough in Amazon’s case to essentially make 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 Gavin Magor On June 22, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Insurance companies typically don’t elicit much sympathy from the public. We see them as either predatory, thieves or, at the very least, on par with lawyers as businesses that we rarely choose to...
By Mandeep Rai On June 21, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Tech stocks may have caught a breather last week, and the S&P 500 may have dipped. But investors didn’t miss a beat. They were busy flooding the stock market with new capital!
As of last...
By Jon D. Markman On May 22, 201702:00 PM Eastern
We humans are pretty simple. We want binary choices. Right, wrong. Up, down. Unfortunately, markets are often more complex.
After the presidential election, investors expected this White House...