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By Mike Larson On July 3, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The Fourth of July holiday is one of my all-time favorites.
Over the past several years, my wife, kids, and I have done beach and pool days … grilled ribs, burgers, salmon, and hot dogs … caught...
By Mike Larson On June 30, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Some investors like to fly close to the sun, loading up on red-hot “FAANG” stocks and riding them until they implode.
Others like to dig around in the deepest, darkest market sludge, buying...
By Jon D. Markman On June 28, 201702:00 PM Eastern
After Amazon’s (AMZN) announcement that it was buying Whole Foods Market Inc. (WFM) for $13.7 billion in cash, shares of both companies went up. (Enough in Amazon’s case to essentially make the...
By Mike Larson On June 23, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Fun fact about South Florida: The 1960 movie “Where the Boys Are” put Fort Lauderdale on the map as a Spring Break mecca. Legions of real-life college students followed the movie’s fictional main...
By Remi Lukosiunas On June 20, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The Federal Reserve approved its second interest rate hike of 2017 last week. It decided to bump the rate by an additional 0.25% to a new target rate of 1.25%. In the aftermath of this move, let’s...
By Jon D. Markman On June 19, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Amazon (AMZN) is spending $14 billion to put Whole Foods Markets (WFM) in its shopping cart — a surprising move that analysts so far have completely misunderstood.
Analysts claim the online...
By Jon D. Markman On June 14, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In the near future, scientists will engineer food that grows faster and does not spoil.
This is the promise of CRISPR/Cas 9, a game-changing gene-editing tool.
Bioengineered food could end...
By Mike Larson On June 12, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Over the last 10 years, global central banks have waged war on your income portfolio. They’ve slashed benchmark interest rates more than 667 times, and driven yields even lower with more than $12...
By Jon D. Markman On June 9, 201702:00 PM Eastern
It looks like a giant vacuum cleaner and it’s set to disrupt the fruit-harvesting business.
Like most startups, Abundant Robotics saw a problem it thought could be solved with technology.
So...
By Gavin Magor On June 8, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Of all the companies that suffered during the housing crisis and Great Recession, mortgage insurers fared among the worst. Many fell by the wayside as the financial crisis bit hard, and losses...