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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 Jon D. Markman On February 4, 201707:30 AM Eastern
A quick note here from the Money and Markets team: Our own Jon Markman has a great offer coming down the pike for his Pivotal Point Trader service. So, keep your eyes peeled for it in the days...
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 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 Jon D. Markman On January 10, 201707:30 AM Eastern
Robots are perfect villains. Mechanical, metallic and merciless. Now they’re getting a software upgrade. And they’re coming for your job.
Much like the Gilded Age – when industrialization in the...
By Jon D. Markman On January 3, 201707:30 AM Eastern
For many sports fans, it’s unthinkable. But young people have stopped watching the games live. They would rather watch them when it’s convenient. And that, pardon the pun, is a game-changer.
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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 19, 201607:30 AM Eastern
For many years, we were stuck in a binary “Risk On” and Risk Off’ environment -- where almost all stocks go up and down together in unison. But after another rise in interest rates last week, 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,...