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By Gavin Magor On August 10, 201707:00 AM Eastern
What happens when a company you count on to protect your possessions — or even your life — fails?
Unfortunately, you can’t just go and withdraw your money as soon as you hear about brewing...
By Jon D. Markman On August 9, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A tiny Chicago startup is having a huge impact on insurance.
Lemonade Insurance Company wanted to disrupt the way insurance companies do business. So it replaced brokers and paperwork with...
By Remi Lukosiunas On August 8, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Banks aren’t created to provide you with free financial services. They’re here to make money just like any other business. In fact, the U.S. banking industry netted $160.5 billion last year and...
By Jon D. Markman On August 7, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Big Blue. It’s supposed to be the best of blue-chip stocks. It’s not.
The latest financial results for International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have arrived. And they are dismal, again. Mark...
By Mike Larson On August 7, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Want to make money in today’s market? Then I have a very simple, secret piece of advice for you …
Forget politics!
Nine-tenths of what you’re hearing or seeing out of Washington these days is...
By Jon D. Markman On August 4, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Water covers most of the planet. Yet, fresh drinking water remains a precious commodity in many places. It’s one of life’s rich riddles.
A Spanish company has a solution. Abengoa S.A. (MCE:...
By Mike Larson On August 4, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The U.S. dollar can’t get out of its own way. It’s falling against the euro. It’s falling against the British pound. It’s falling against the Swiss franc. It’s falling against the Canadian dollar,...
By Jon D. Markman On August 2, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Everywhere you look, something in the real world seems to be getting replaced by something digital.
Thankfully, the real world has started to strike back.
This week, The Wall Street...
By Mandeep Rai On August 2, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Politicians keep cooking up plans to boost the economy’s growth rate. But what’s so bad about 2% growth? According to my work, “Nothing!”
We just got the second-quarter GDP report, and it showed...
By Remi Lukosiunas On August 1, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The Dodd-Frank Act – Three words that make the financial industry cringe. Banks, credit unions, and the big dogs on Wall Street have been struggling to keep up with the law, and fighting it on...