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By The Weiss Ratings Team On June 13, 201612:37 PM Eastern
On Friday, there were reports of sell-offs in overseas markets, and the money was flooding into the U.S-specifically to U.S. Treasuries. Given the underwhelming 1.65% yield being offered, is this...
By Jon D. Markman On June 7, 201607:30 AM Eastern
So here we are in June. Can you believe the year is almost half over? Some 156 days have already clicked past, and there are 209 more to go. If there was something you really wanted to accomplish...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On June 6, 201612:57 PM Eastern
News of the crumbling relationship between Costco (COST) and American Express (AXP) had been out for a while and everyone knows that the day when their AmEx cards will no longer work at Costco is...
By Jon D. Markman On May 31, 201607:30 AM Eastern
There has always been an income-inequality problem in the world of software development. Now, a new study from Sensor Tower illuminates just how big that divide has become.
Like most gold...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On May 31, 201607:00 AM Eastern
The latest data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce showed a 16.6 percent increase in new home sales and a 3.6 percent increase in new residential construction permits for the month of...
By Jon D. Markman On May 24, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Profits are good for companies obviously, but increasing profits on a consistent basis is even better.
So S&P Capital IQ, a division of McGraw Hill Financial, went to work earlier this...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On May 23, 201602:04 PM Eastern
Bayer’s (BAYZF) intended acquisition of Monsanto (MON) may be a bit too much to handle. The initial announcement of an unsolicited offer of $45 billion for Monsanto sent Bayer’s shares tumbling...
By Jon D. Markman On May 17, 201607:30 AM Eastern
In a nondescript California garage recently, a guy told a gadget to get his electric car, named KITT, out onto the driveway and ready for him to drive.
Not only was this the perfect mashup of...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On May 9, 201607:00 AM Eastern
[Image: Surface Coal Mine, Gillette, Wyoming by Greg Goebel [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons] With the energy sector struggling to maintain its steam and companies going bankrupt, we’ve...
By Jon D. Markman On May 3, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Hand-wringing among analysts and investors was the gesture of choice last week after Apple (AAPL) reported that it is no longer growing at record rates. I got the sense that Wall Street both...