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By The Weiss Ratings Team On August 1, 201612:39 PM Eastern
The Federal Reserve announcement last Wednesday not to raise interest rates suppressed the rise of the dollar against the major world currencies. The Fed continued the usual hinting of a possible...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 25, 201611:55 AM Eastern
An announcement last week from United Airlines (UAL) indicated that all may not be right with the airlines. United explained that currently they are operating under capacity in the US, during what...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 25, 201611:53 AM Eastern
Monday morning, Yahoo! Inc (YHOO) confirmed the sale of its web-based business to Verizon (VZ) for $4.8 billion in cash. Most of the company’s assets will be sold, the remaining Yahoo! will...
By Jon D. Markman On July 19, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Microsoft wants to use synthetic DNA strands to store the world’s data. And that could make giant data centers obsolete.
There’s no doubt about it, the world’s biggest technology firms are...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 18, 201602:00 PM Eastern
[Image: James Duncan Davidson used under license CC by 2.0] Last week was a big week for the internet giant Amazon (AMZN). First, the company reached a milestone on Monday by exceeding Berkshire...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 11, 201602:34 PM Eastern
With the post Brexit economic turmoil unfolding around the globe, we look in our own backyard to see what’s going on with U.S. bank stocks. Our stock analysis shows that three out of the top...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On July 5, 201601:49 PM Eastern
The preliminary offer by Mondelez International Inc. (MDLZ) to take over Hershey Co. (HSY) wasn’t sweet enough, and the creation of the world’s largest candy company will have to wait, or not...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On June 27, 201610:26 AM Eastern
Global markets were taken by surprise on Friday when the votes were counted in the U.K., as it became clear that Britain was going to leave the European Union (EU) after more than 40 years. Many,...
By Jon D. Markman On June 21, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Surely you remember Intel. It is still the largest U.S. semiconductor maker, but has curiously faded from prominence. It was once at the top of the heap, riding the wave of desktop computer...
By Jon D. Markman On June 14, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Bankers are under attack around the world. The assault is not being led by masked men with pistols but rather by anonymous cyber-thieves armed with malicious code.
The bankers’ vulnerability...