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By Mandeep Rai On November 15, 201707:00 AM Eastern
When the going got tough in the markets last week, investors went shopping … in retail stocks! That tells me a profit opportunity could be brewing as we head into the key holiday season.
It’s no...
By Jon D. Markman On November 10, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Skeptics say fully self-driving cars are decades away. They’re wrong.
This week The USA Today reported that Waymo, the Alphabet (GOOGL) subsidiary working on autonomous vehicles, showed off a...
By Mandeep Rai On October 18, 201707:00 AM Eastern
When Citi upgraded the retail sector over the weekend, it caught my attention because my family and I saw firsthand the marked drop in mall traffic over the weekend. The mall, yes, that massive...
By Jon D. Markman On September 25, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Big, iconic brands are dying. It’s the strangest thing.
Decades of advertising, with billions spent, are having no impact.
Brands used to be everything. Now consumers don’t care.
It...
By Jon D. Markman On September 22, 201702:00 PM Eastern
City dwellers are ditching four wheels for two. Bicycle lanes and sharing depots are popping up in cities and metro areas all across the world. Many more are coming.
The bike-share business...
By Mike Larson On September 18, 201707:00 AM Eastern
First things first: Our office, my home, and the homes and families of our employees largely escaped the wrath of Hurricane Irma. I’m very thankful for that.
Unfortunately, I can’t say the same...
By Mike Larson On September 8, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Last week, I wrote about Hurricane Harvey. I suggested investors could “do well by doing good” by investing in companies whose products will help fuel the rebuilding and recovery process in Texas...
By Gavin Magor On September 7, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Devastating, and expensive, the damage in Texas from Hurricane Harvey will fall mainly on the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as I said last week. Catastrophe funding will also kick in for...
By Jon D. Markman On August 21, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Most stocks suck. I have been saying it for a long time. It has nothing to do with markets, or even with the economy.
Last week, Foot Locker (FL) reported terrible results. Shares in the...
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...