As is often the case with a new cabinet appointment, there’s a lot of speculation, story-making and supposition out there about Xavier Becerra, Joe Biden’s designee to run the U.S. Department of...

Tech stocks may have caught a breather last week, and the S&P 500 may have dipped. But investors didn’t miss a beat. They were busy flooding the stock market with new capital! As of last...

President Trump upped the ante in the U.S.-China trade war this week, vowing to slap new tariffs on $200 billion of imported Chinese goods. The 10% levy will start September 24. Depending on how...

Hurricane Irma had its eye set on the east coast of Florida, with catastrophic damage predictions running as high as $200 billion. But she switched gears at the last minute, losing power and...

The scenes in Texas are as shocking as they are heartbreaking. We’re seeing once again that flooding caused by storm surge and heavy rain can be much more devastating during hurricanes than the...

“It should be clear for all to see,” wrote Jon Markman in the July 24, 2020, issue of Jon Markman’s Pivotal Point, “that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT, Rated “B+”) was a huge winner in the pandemic.” ...

By Sean Brodrick with Sam Blumenfeld If you’re wondering what the single biggest driver of the stock market currently is ... I’ll give you a hint. It isn’t the overall health of the...

Some people think banking crises are purely a thing of the past. Others fear the next crisis will be like the last one — a repeat of 2008. We envision a third, very different scenario, which...

I was born in 1946, soon after World War II ended and just as a postwar economic boom was getting underway. Many people thought that boom would last only a year or two. The Great Depression was...

Will they or won't they? That's the question everyone on Wall Street is asking this week. Only for the first time in several years, it's in reference to Federal Reserve rate CUTS, rather than...