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By Jon D. Markman On February 2, 201704:00 PM Eastern
In the on-demand world of cloud data centers, speed is everything. Speed endows scale. Speed separates winners from losers.
Among those winners are a whole new crop of semiconductor makers that...
By Mandeep Rai On January 31, 201705:02 PM Eastern
The market stumbled out of the gate this week, with the Dow down as much as 220 points on Monday and 150 points on Tuesday. Small caps pulled back as well, and for the first time in a long while,...
By Mandeep Rai On January 25, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Recessions are arguably the largest risks to the market because they cause the largest drawdowns in stocks. They’re often accompanied by general deleveraging, a run on a bank, a large change in...
By Jon D. Markman On January 24, 201707:30 AM Eastern
It’s classic Amazon. Build an internal business to service the massive online store. Give it dominant scale. Sell the excess supply as a stand-alone enterprise.
Two weeks ago, The Wall Street...
By Jon D. Markman On January 17, 201707:30 AM Eastern
Amazon (AMZN) set out to change the world in 1994. Three years later, its IPO valued the company at just $461 million. Today it’s worth $360 billion, a gain of roughly 50,375%.
Is it possible,...
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
2016 was a year of surprises. Things that no one thought possible happened and the markets reacted in ways not many anticipated.
The move by OPEC and non-OPEC countries to reduce oil production...
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...