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By Tony Sagami On May 20, 201901:49 PM Eastern
The older I get, the more I realize how much more I have yet to learn. Which is why I fly across oceans in cramped coach seats (I'm too cheap to pay for business class) to attend conferences.
My...
By Jon D. Markman On May 17, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The extreme -2.5% setback to U.S. markets to kick off this week set off a ton of alarm bells among the sort of quantitative analysts who help us understand current events through the prism of past...
By Jon D. Markman On May 15, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The pitch is dead-simple. Earn up 4.00% annual yield on credit balances up to $3,000.
The twist: This deal isn’t coming from a big bank, or even a local credit union. It’s from wireless carrier...
By Jon D. Markman On May 13, 201902:40 PM Eastern
Uber (UBER) raised $8.1 billion last week, the biggest U.S. Initial Public Offering in five years. But it is only the headliner in a bunch of IPOs dropping this month. Others span the spectrum of...
By Jon D. Markman On May 10, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Stocks clanked again over the past week in a series of volatile sessions in which sentiment waxed and waned and fretted and cheered over the loop-de-loop path of U.S.-China trade talks.
Topping...
By Tony Sagami On May 10, 201907:55 AM Eastern
Love him or hate him, there is no question President Trump is taking a tougher stance against China than any president in my lifetime.
Over the weekend, Trump tweeted that he plans to raise the...
By Jon D. Markman On May 8, 201905:25 PM Eastern
Facebook is much maligned for its privacy foibles. But the company is planning its second act.
Surprise! Now the social media giant wants to be your wallet.
The company is exploring back-end...
By Juan M. Villaverde On May 8, 201903:04 PM Eastern
Crypto enthusiasts are fired up with the news that the world’s paramount social media giant is going to jump into the space, something they hope “will do wonders for crypto adoption.”
I hate to...
By Tony Sagami On May 6, 201904:26 PM Eastern
Johnny Carson was the undisputed king of late-night TV, and "The Tonight Show" was one of my all-time favorites. I seldom missed his monologue, punctuated by Ed McMahon's belly laughs. But I also...
By Jon D. Markman On May 6, 201910:00 AM Eastern
Editor’s note: Below is what Jon sent his Markman’s Strategic Options subscribers before the markets opened this morning. With the broad markets in the red, down about 1.5% apiece, we think all of...