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By Mike Larson On February 17, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Interest rates are on the rise again.
The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond just breached 2%. That’s more than double its March low and the highest level in a year.
The yield on the...
By Sean Brodrick On February 16, 202107:24 AM Eastern
Is it mere coincidence that every 100 years, the world is devastated by a pandemic?
From the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 … to the Cholera pandemic of 1820 … to the Spanish Flu circa 1920...
By David Dittman On February 16, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Cannabis stocks enjoyed quite the run in the days and weeks after I wrote “We Need to Talk About Weed” on Jan. 19.
They even got caught up in the “Reddit Revolution,” as guerrilla traders from...
By Jessica Borg On February 14, 202112:19 PM Eastern
There’s at least one current megatrend that won’t “reverse course” any time soon. That trend is electric vehicles, or EV’s for short. In fact, industry growth is being accelerated by a host of...
By Jon D. Markman On February 9, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Some dust has settled around GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), with one hedge fund pocketing a $700 million profit, multiple home-gamers trying to use the frenzy to pay off debt and the stock trading...
By Sean Brodrick On February 8, 202108:49 AM Eastern
For the first time in manufacturing history, a pandemic beat the heck out of demand, supply and labor in nearly every country on Earth — all at the same time.
For decades, supply chains moved...
By Sean Brodrick On February 2, 202105:27 AM Eastern
The novel coronavirus is rocket fuel for megatrends that were already under way — working from home … telemedicine … cloud computing … and the Internet of Things.
And semiconductors — LOTS of...
By David Dittman On January 26, 202104:15 PM Eastern
Ray Dalio is the founder and co-chief investment officer of the largest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates. On Sunday, Dalio said, “I believe we are on the brink of a terrible civil...
By Sean Brodrick On January 26, 202106:10 AM Eastern
A cyberattack may be “the broadest, most challenging, most significant threat we face as a country.” That’s according to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Such attacks are already happening, and...
By Jessica Borg On January 24, 202111:04 AM Eastern
For cannabis growers, researchers, store owners, recreational users and, of course, investors, there’s a ton of good news on the horizon ... or shall I say, “high”-rizon.
With the Biden...