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By Mike Larson On March 8, 201811:00 AM Eastern
Editor’s note: I’ve found my Weiss Ratings colleague Mike Larson has some great insight on the forces moving the markets. He approaches things from a different viewpoint than my own. And I always...
By Mike Larson On November 10, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Just over a year ago, Donald Trump was elected the president of the United States. I called it “An epic bombshell. A massive shock to the system. [And] a wake-up call for the political elite in...
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 Mandeep Rai On March 22, 201707:00 AM Eastern
We’ve long known that the Weiss Ratings Model gives us insights to a company’s future prospects, but I’m also finding we can use it to gauge the health of the general market. Let me explain…
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By Mike Larson On March 17, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The Federal Reserve did exactly what I predicted it would: Raise interest rates for the third time in this rate-hiking cycle. Wednesday’s move boosted the benchmark federal funds rate to a range...
By Jon D. Markman On March 15, 201607:30 AM Eastern
When you consider that gasoline prices are near their lowest of the decade and jobs are firming up, you would expect that small-business owners should be optimistic.
Yet they’re not. In fact,...
By Jon D. Markman On November 3, 201507:30 AM Eastern
Last week brought a frightful Dallas Fed Manufacturing report, which showed manufacturing activity in the region contracting for the 10th straight month. Now, I want to point out that...
By Jon D. Markman On March 3, 201507:30 AM Eastern
The global macro picture is looking a little rosier despite weak economic data last week. The U.S. economy is not super robust, but the latest data suggest it does continue to expand, as...
By Kenny Polcari On October 17, 202212:45 PM Eastern
Today, we’re taking a deeper look at what happened last week before setting our sights on the week ahead.
The Great Convergence