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By Mike Larson On February 6, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The first month of 2017 is officially in the books! If one thing stands out, it’s that this January looked a heck of a lot different from last January. Stocks fell out of bed in the first month...
By Mike Larson On February 3, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Donald Trump is mad as heck and he’s not going to take it any more – at least when it comes to the U.S. dollar.
That’s the signal the newly elected President and his top advisors sent out loud...
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 Jon D. Markman On January 31, 201707:30 AM Eastern
A few weeks ago, the battery in my daughter’s MacBook Pro laptop went on the fritz. It wouldn’t charge; she was chained to a wall plug. Among other inconveniences, there was no way for her to take...
By Mike Larson On January 27, 201707:00 AM Eastern
It’s official: We’ve breached “Dow 20,000!”
The 121-year-old index crossed that level for the first time ever at the open on Wednesday, ultimately closing higher by 155 points. And just as we’ve...
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 Mike Larson On January 23, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Amid all the euphoria about Dow-almost-20,000, one group of stocks got left out of the party. Interest rate-sensitive sectors.
Just look at this table showing the recent performance of...
By Mike Larson On January 20, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Inauguration Day is here! That means Washington D.C. is in full celebration (or protest) mode, depending on which group of people you’re talking about.
But while America as a whole may be...
By Mike Larson On January 16, 201707:00 AM Eastern
If there’s one thing investors want in this low-rate world, it’s stocks with generous yields. If they can get nice capital gains at the same time, that’s even better.
Now, Weiss Ratings can help...
By Mandeep Rai On January 10, 201704:50 PM Eastern
There’s a lot of chatter in the media right now about the valuations of small cap stocks, and why not? They’ve surged 14% since the election, as measured by the Russell 2000 Index. So it’s easy to...