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By Jon D. Markman On December 27, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Now that the rush of Christmas shopping is over, imagine a store without lines or checkouts. You walk in, tap your smartphone, pick up the items you want. Then you leave. You know, like in the...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 26, 201607:30 AM Eastern
I’ve seen some pretty crazy moves during my two decades of following the markets closely. The Long-Term Capital Management debacle. The dot-com boom and bust. The mortgage mania ... and...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 19, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Follow the money. That’s what the tipster code-named “Deep Throat” told Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein when they were reporting on the Watergate scandal. But that advice applies in investing,...
By Jon D. Markman On December 13, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Supercomputers and “big data” analytics are among the high-end tools that the best hedge fund managers depend upon today. No organization uses them better than the creative wizards at Renaissance...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 12, 201603:00 PM Eastern
Italy’s banks are some of the most troubled banks in the Eurozone. Weighed down by bad loans, they may all be once again looking for new sources of capital after burning through cash from prior...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 5, 201602:37 PM Eastern
Is it time to invest in oil companies? Low oil prices over the last year had been chipping away at the profits of oil companies, causing business failures, and raising industry-wide concern. Some...
By Jon D. Markman On November 22, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Billionaires and technology behemoths see something in e-sports. Now Facebook (FB) is taking a harder look, too.
The Information recently reported that the social media giant has been in talks...
By Jon D. Markman On November 15, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Microsoft (MSFT) suddenly is about more than spreadsheets and stale PowerPoint presentations. It’s about making innovative products that drive narratives about the future of computing.
The...
By Jon D. Markman On November 8, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Google wants to change the way we interact with technology. The fact that tech journalists and Wall Street analysts love its new smartphone doesn’t hurt either, by the way.
The new Pixel...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On November 7, 201601:41 PM Eastern
We upgraded 1,005 ETFs and downgraded 606 over the last two weeks. Out of all the upgrades, using the ETFs screener, we narrowed down to three funds we think are truly worth your consideration.
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