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By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 26, 201607:30 AM Eastern
I’ve seen some pretty crazy moves during my two decades of following the markets closely. The Long-Term Capital Management debacle. The dot-com boom and bust. The mortgage mania ... and...
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 The Weiss Ratings Team On December 19, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Follow the money. That’s what the tipster code-named “Deep Throat” told Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein when they were reporting on the Watergate scandal. But that advice applies in investing,...
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 12, 201603:00 PM Eastern
Italy’s banks are some of the most troubled banks in the Eurozone. Weighed down by bad loans, they may all be once again looking for new sources of capital after burning through cash from prior...
By Jon D. Markman On November 29, 201607:30 AM Eastern
The $300 billion Chinese trucking market is filled with long hauls and chaos. The government and technology firms are betting that self-driving 18-wheelers are the solution.
Earlier this month...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On November 14, 201602:22 PM Eastern
The financial sector reacted positively to last week’s election results, quite contrary to a lot of experts’ expectations. Economic troubles were expected if Trump won, but his promises to reduce...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On October 31, 201602:13 PM Eastern
Weiss rates 97 mutual funds with investments in the European stock market, and only one of them is a BUY. This may come as no surprise, given the recent economic turmoil in the region stirred by...
By Jon D. Markman On September 27, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Someone is trying to take down the Internet. They are systematically targeting the core systems that keep everything running.
Most people take the Internet for granted. It’s where we get our...