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By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 25, 201612:13 PM Eastern
Weiss Ratings upgraded the safety ratings of 138 property and casualty insurers and downgraded 12, based on first quarter 2016 results. The small number of downgrades and a handful of upgrades...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 25, 201611:53 AM Eastern
Monday morning, Yahoo! Inc (YHOO) confirmed the sale of its web-based business to Verizon (VZ) for $4.8 billion in cash. Most of the company’s assets will be sold, the remaining Yahoo! will...
By Jon D. Markman On July 19, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Microsoft wants to use synthetic DNA strands to store the world’s data. And that could make giant data centers obsolete.
There’s no doubt about it, the world’s biggest technology firms are...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 18, 201602:00 PM Eastern
[Image: James Duncan Davidson used under license CC by 2.0] Last week was a big week for the internet giant Amazon (AMZN). First, the company reached a milestone on Monday by exceeding Berkshire...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 11, 201602:34 PM Eastern
With the post Brexit economic turmoil unfolding around the globe, we look in our own backyard to see what’s going on with U.S. bank stocks. Our stock analysis shows that three out of the top...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 5, 201601:49 PM Eastern
The preliminary offer by Mondelez International Inc. (MDLZ) to take over Hershey Co. (HSY) wasn’t sweet enough, and the creation of the world’s largest candy company will have to wait, or not...
By Jon D. Markman On July 5, 201607:30 AM Eastern
In the classic 1967 film The Graduate, a family friend offers young Ben one word as guidance for his future: Plastics. Good call.
Google is having that consigliore moment right now with...
By Jon D. Markman On June 28, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Apple is about to become much less significant in the consumer electronics business.
The notion that Apple (AAPL) is in decline is not even controversial anymore. Many longtime Apple...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On June 27, 201610:26 AM Eastern
Global markets were taken by surprise on Friday when the votes were counted in the U.K., as it became clear that Britain was going to leave the European Union (EU) after more than 40 years. Many,...
By Jon D. Markman On June 21, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Surely you remember Intel. It is still the largest U.S. semiconductor maker, but has curiously faded from prominence. It was once at the top of the heap, riding the wave of desktop computer...