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By Jon D. Markman On August 13, 201801:55 PM Eastern
It is called the last mile, and it’s crucial to the future of all commerce. Yet most investors have never heard of it. There lies an opportunity.
Last week, Bloomberg ran a story about a startup...
By Tony Sagami On August 13, 201807:55 AM Eastern
There’s a huge obstacle keeping cryptocurrencies from becoming a mainstream investment. That is, the inability of large institutional investors to find a third-party custodian to hold it for...
By Mike Larson On August 10, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I bet that Warren Buffett had a huge smile on his face last week. I say that because Buffett’s investment franchise, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 240 million shares of Apple (AAPL). And it pocketed...
By Sean Brodrick On August 9, 201811:55 AM Eastern
Is there a metal too cheap to mine? Yes!
I’m talking about uranium. The price of uranium is up 28% this year. On Wednesday, it closed at $26.05 per pound. That’s the good news.
The bad news?...
By Jon D. Markman On August 8, 201801:55 PM Eastern
Politicians may have left the table, but U.S. corporations are racing to get a bigger share of the Chinese economy.
Bloomberg reported on Friday that Alphabet (GOOGL) was in talks with Tencent...
By Mike Larson On August 8, 201807:55 AM Eastern
All tech, all the time. That’s what most of the financial news coverage is about these days. Heck, even as I was writing this piece a CNBC segment called “The Next Big Tech Names” was running on...
Monero, Dash, Zcash and similar coins use advanced mathematics to protect the privacy of transactions, and the technology underlying these specialized coins can be very beneficial.
It could help...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On August 6, 201807:55 AM Eastern
A lot of expert manpower and money has been poured into the technology that underlies cryptocurrencies — Distributed Ledger Technology, or (DLT).
Major global banks are jumping into the space....
By Tony Sagami On August 6, 201807:55 AM Eastern
On July 26, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission again rejected an application from the Winklevoss twins to launch a new Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF).
When the news hit the tape,...
By Sean Brodrick On August 4, 201811:55 AM Eastern
Many analysts seem ready to stick a fork in wind and solar power.
After all, unlike coal and nuclear power, the Trump administration doesn’t seem to favor the alternative-energy segments. Plus,...