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By Mike Larson On July 28, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Is this a Commodities Comeback I spy?
Copper futures just hit their highest since May 2015. Lumber futures are approaching their 2004 housing bubble peak. Crude oil is climbing off the mat,...
By Jon D. Markman On July 21, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Next time you get a traffic ticket, there’s a bot for that. The artificially intelligent software defends drivers against traffic tickets – and wins often. And it’s now available in all 50...
By Jon D. Markman On July 12, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Digital is the future of everything.
And banks should have been at the front of the line. They have the most to gain. It has not worked out that way.
The simple reason is fear.
Bankers...
By Mandeep Rai On July 12, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Roughly 10 years ago, we suffered the largest slowdown in the U.S. economy since the Great Depression. Bear Sterns was given away at fire-sale prices, as was Countrywide Home Loans and many other...
By Jon D. Markman On July 10, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Passively managed exchange-traded funds are clobbering the performance of actively managed mutual funds this year. And brainy portfolio managers are starting to freak out.
A recent piece in The...
By Jon D. Markman On July 5, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Don’t look now, but video surveillance is hot. It was inevitable. The willing surrender of privacy and the fear of bad actors make a potent combination.
This week, police in Dubai enlisted a...
By Jon D. Markman On June 26, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Oil prices have crashed from $52 to $42 in the last month. And China’s the culprit, say Wall Street analysts.
China is an easy mark: Ghost cities, capital flight, shadow banking, rising dissent...
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 13, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Last week I talked about declining number of banks and how this downward pattern may leave us with fewer options to choose from. But our latest round of ratings gives us some encouraging news...
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...