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By The Weiss Ratings Team On August 29, 201611:48 AM Eastern
Janet Yellen’s speech last Friday, highlighted a positive outlook for a near future interest rate hike. She noted that solid performance of the labor market, coupled with positive outlook for...
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 Jon D. Markman On July 5, 201607:30 AM Eastern
In the classic 1967 film The Graduate, a family friend offers young Ben one word as guidance for his future: Plastics. Good call.
Google is having that consigliore moment right now with...
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...
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 17, 201607:00 AM Eastern
The latest numbers indicate that they are. With a disappointing first quarter earnings report, Macy’s (M) stock slumped 15.2 percent last Wednesday closing the day at $31.38 per share. The...
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 The Weiss Ratings Team On April 11, 201607:00 AM Eastern
Alaska Airlines (ALK) is on the runway and is waiting to take-off. The announced acquisition of Virgin America (VA) for $2.6 billion will mark a regional airline consolidation. With new routes it...
By Jon D. Markman On October 30, 201504:30 PM Eastern
[market-roundup](Mike Larson, editor of the Safe Money Report, is on assignment in Europe. Jon Markman, editor of the Tech Trend Trader, steps in to examine the latest trends in technology.)
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By Jon D. Markman On June 30, 201507:30 AM Eastern
What worries me the most about the current economy is not corporate masters keeping entry-level workers down overtly, but the trend toward robots, artificial intelligence and machines learning...