It’s been nothing short of an outstanding 2017 for the tech sector. Up nearly 43%, tech stocks have nearly doubled the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) returns of 24% this year. Given the strength of tech stocks there are no shortage of highly valued investment alternatives, but some are over the […]
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Muni bond Friday update: 10-year yield rises
A look at the AP Municipal Bond Index for Friday, Nov. 10: Continue Reading Below BIGGEST MOVER: One-year bonds. Yield increased 10 basis points over the last week to 1.15 percent. TWO-YEAR: Yield increased 2 basis points to 1.26 percent. The two-year/10-year spread is 100 basis points, down from 110 […]
Amazon Is Winning the Battle for the Connected Household
There are several ways a company can achieve an economic moat. One way is to become a leading platform or ecosystem, such as Apple‘s (NASDAQ: AAPL) app store. Application developers usually write for iOS first, since that is where the most financially well-off customers are. The more apps on the iOS […]
Tech Stocks This Week: Roku Soars, Square Impresses, and Snap Falls
As earnings season continued this week, three tech companies’ earnings reports stood out. Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) and Square (NYSE: SQ) both impressed investors with surging business growth, and Snap (NYSE: SNAP) missed the mark yet again, sending shares plummeting. Here’s what investors should know about these three stocks. Continue Reading […]
US sage grouse policy heading back to square one
SPARKS, Nev. – U.S. scientists and land managers who’ve been crafting strategies to protect a ground-dwelling bird across the American West for nearly two decades are going back to the drawing board. Continue Reading Below Federal officials wrap up a series of public meetings with three sessions in Utah in […]
How to Sell Yourself in an Interview When Switching Careers
If you’ve made the decision to leave your current career in favor of a brand-new one, you’re not alone. More than half of workers are interested in a career change, according to a recent University of Phoenix survey. Continue Reading Below That said, just because you want to switch careers […]
Snapchat Ad Prices Are Tanking
Snap (NYSE: SNAP) decided to offer investors a closer glimpse at its advertising business in the third quarter. It disclosed the average ad price on Snapchat declined 60% year over year and 20% from the second quarter during its third-quarter earnings call. Continue Reading Below The shift to Snap’s API […]
Say What? Maine’s Governor Just Vetoed the State’s Voter-Approved Recreational Marijuana Bill
There’s no coincidence that the marijuana industry is known as the “green rush.” If you look at the sales figures behind legal weed, they’ve been soaring at an incredible pace. Cannabis research firm ArcView is estimating that compound annual growth in North America through the year 2021 could come in […]
How to Invest in IPOs
So you say you want to invest in IPOs? Maybe make a fortune on the next Facebook? Well, good luck. Continue Reading Below The fact is, most IPO stocks underperform the market for several years after going public. That’s not surprising. After all, when a company sells stock to the […]
The Solar + Energy Storage Space Has a Surprising Power Player (And It’s Not Tesla)
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) was supposed to be the big name in solar and energy storage, leveraging the Powerwall for homes and Powerpack for businesses and using its SolarCity operations to push systems out into the wild. But Tesla is shrinking its solar ambitions and doesn’t seem to have much interest […]