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By Mike Larson On August 8, 201807:55 AM Eastern
All tech, all the time. That’s what most of the financial news coverage is about these days. Heck, even as I was writing this piece a CNBC segment called “The Next Big Tech Names” was running on...
By Jon D. Markman On August 3, 201802:52 PM Eastern
It is Economics 101. The best business model involves strong sales and high profit margins. Sadly, the combination almost never happens.
Apple (AAPL) almost got there in the past quarter. The...
By Mike Larson On August 2, 201811:55 AM Eastern
Have you ever seen a stock market as confused as this one?
One day, you can’t give financial stocks away. The next day, they’re soaring.
One day, transportation shares are on fire. The next...
By Jon D. Markman On August 1, 201804:59 PM Eastern
Big Pharma is in a rut. The industry keeps spending more and yet making fewer scientific breakthroughs.
But help is on the way.
Last week, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced a radical change in...
By Mike Larson On August 1, 201807:55 AM Eastern
One-hundred and twenty billion dollars is a lot of money.
It’s roughly equal to the entire annual economic output of Kuwait — or Uruguay and Panama combined, if you prefer.
It’s enough to buy...
By Jon D. Markman On July 25, 201802:00 PM Eastern
Will General Electric (GE) ever bring good things to life again? Not if its latest quarterly results are any indication. In fact, the stock still remains mired in no-man’s land – trading for less...
By Juan M. Villaverde On July 25, 201807:55 AM Eastern
The technology underlying cryptocurrencies, called Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), is sweeping the globe.
It could one day transform who controls global financial markets.
And it could...
By Tony Sagami On July 23, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Bloomberg calls it “the definitive sign that cryptocurrencies have arrived on Wall Street.”
They’re talking about some big changes coming to one of the toughest tests in finance — the one needed...
By Jon D. Markman On July 20, 201801:55 PM Eastern
Corporate earnings are set to rise more than 20%. Productivity gains in excess of 5% of global GDP are possible. And $650 billion of new industrial spending is likely.
That’s all according to...
By Jon D. Markman On July 18, 201802:36 PM Eastern
Modern telemedicine was born in 2001 when NASA engineers were given the task of providing extended healthcare to astronauts flying 220 miles above the Earth’s surface.
The challenge was...