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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 Tony Sagami On May 25, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I was raised on a vegetable farm near Tacoma, Wash., and attended the University of Washington. And even though I moved to Asia years ago, my brother, sister, daughter and my precious 8-month-old...
By Sean Brodrick On August 15, 202005:00 AM Eastern
What a wild couple of weeks it’s been for gold.
First, the yellow metal pushed over its previous all-time high of $1,923, and, on Aug. 7, it clocked an intraday high of $2,089 per ounce. Then...
By Jon D. Markman On November 9, 201801:55 PM Eastern
The branding is perfect: No lines, no checkouts, no registers. Retail is going people-less. Technology can replace cashiers, and companies are racing to get there first.
The trend began with...
By Jon D. Markman On August 16, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Airlines have been the butt of customer service jokes for years. Deservedly so. Now they’re fighting back, with software.
This week, JetBlue announced a large investment in Gladly, a Silicon...
By Tony Sagami On May 4, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I’m lucky because I have one of the sweetest sisters in the entire world. But our political views are so different that I sometimes wonder if we were raised by the same vegetable-farmer parents.
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By David Dittman On August 18, 202004:17 PM Eastern
The thing about Twitter is that it holds a lot of good stuff.
On the other hand, the social media platform holds a lot of bad stuff, too.
Well, this is good Twitter, because it’s a solid...
By Jon D. Markman On November 14, 201804:10 PM Eastern
Computers as small and light as particles of dust are moving out of the realm of science fiction, according to a recent Wall Street Journal story.
It changes what is possible in computing. It...
By Jon D. Markman On April 30, 201801:55 PM Eastern
Just a quick reminder: My Markman’s Strategic Options service is on a heck of a tear. We’re well in the black this year while the major stock indices are in the red. That’s not to mention the 99%...
By Jessica Borg On October 18, 202008:00 AM Eastern
While it may seem as if chaos and uncertainty surround us, there’s one place we can look to see pleasant stability: the market! Yes, you read that right.
In this special five-minute video...