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By Jon D. Markman On June 7, 201902:00 PM Eastern
In the U.S., China and the Eurozone, the idea that lower interest rates alone could heal economic injuries created in trade wars has taken root.
In the short term, it seems to be working. Stocks...
By Tony Sagami On May 24, 201907:02 AM Eastern
What do you have planned for the three-day Memorial Day weekend? Hit the beach, indulge in good food and drink at a family BBQ, or take in a baseball game?
Whatever your plans, I hope you enjoy...
By Jon D. Markman On May 22, 201902:00 PM Eastern
There is this idea that old businesses can be easily remade into digital upstarts, if managers throw enough money at the process.
But that’s not really true. Just look at General Motors (GM).
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By Jon D. Markman On May 17, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The extreme -2.5% setback to U.S. markets to kick off this week set off a ton of alarm bells among the sort of quantitative analysts who help us understand current events through the prism of past...
By Jon D. Markman On May 13, 201902:40 PM Eastern
Uber (UBER) raised $8.1 billion last week, the biggest U.S. Initial Public Offering in five years. But it is only the headliner in a bunch of IPOs dropping this month. Others span the spectrum of...
By Jon D. Markman On May 1, 201904:45 PM Eastern
Alphabet (GOOGL) shareholders had a really bad day Tuesday.
Stock traders and analysts blame a shortfall in Alphabet’s first-quarter advertising revenues. But all this selling is...
By Juan M. Villaverde On May 1, 201912:24 PM Eastern
Tether is the world’s largest stablecoin, supposedly backed 100% by U.S. dollars.
Bitfinex is its sponsor, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges.
And right now, they’re both suffering a...
By Sean Brodrick On April 25, 201912:00 PM Eastern
I attended the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference in Toronto last week. You’ve never seen so many people so serious about something so intoxicating.
But the folks at the conference were there...
By Sean Brodrick On April 22, 201911:22 AM Eastern
I've got two charts for you, and they sum up to my professional opinion that President Trump will legalize marijuana on a federal level. And he'll do it around the 2020 election.
This will have...
By Tony Sagami On April 19, 201908:00 AM Eastern
The only topic that generates more hate mail than Donald Trump is whenever I say anything critical about Tesla (TSLA).
My guess is that people that own shares of Tesla, or a Tesla car, are the...