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OPEC Production Cut to Help ... Small Town USA Banks? Yep, and Here’s How ...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On January 2, 201707:30 AM Eastern
2016 was a year of surprises. Things that no one thought possible happened and the markets reacted in ways not many anticipated. The move by OPEC and non-OPEC countries to reduce oil production...
2016 Quite an Odyssey for the Banking Sector
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 26, 201607:30 AM Eastern
2016 was a year of surprises. Things that no one thought possible happened and the markets reacted in ways not many anticipated. But few industries (and stock market sectors) were impacted as...
2017: The Year of the Small Caps?
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 26, 201607:30 AM Eastern
There’s no doubt the stock market has behaved much differently after the election than it did in the first half of the year. Riskier, formerly dormant small cap stocks awoke in a big way --...
From the Worst of Times to the Best – in Just One Year
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 26, 201607:30 AM Eastern
I’ve seen some pretty crazy moves during my two decades of following the markets closely. The Long-Term Capital Management debacle. The dot-com boom and bust. The mortgage mania ... and...
Follow the Money: What Weiss BUY/SELL Ratios Tell Us About Sector Strength, Weakness
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 19, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Follow the money. That’s what the tipster code-named “Deep Throat” told Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein when they were reporting on the Watergate scandal. But that advice applies in investing,...
In the Strongest Sectors, Select Small Caps Shine Even Brighter
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 19, 201607:30 AM Eastern
For many years, we were stuck in a binary “Risk On” and Risk Off’ environment -- where almost all stocks go up and down together in unison. But after another rise in interest rates last week, and...
Fed Hikes Rates, Banks Stand Strong: Here’s Why (and Which are “BUYs”)
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 19, 201607:30 AM Eastern
[Image by AgnosticPreachersKid via CC 3.0] After much debate and anticipation, the Federal Reserve finally hiked interest rates again last week. It raised the benchmark short-term rate to a...
2016: A Tale of Two Markets
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 12, 201603:03 PM Eastern
It was the best of times for some stocks earlier this year. But it’s the worst of times for them now – and that has implications for investors like you. The year started off with markets mired...
Banking Boom – Chase and Bank of New York Mellon Gain Strength
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 12, 201603:02 PM Eastern
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, the largest bank in the U.S. with over $2 trillion in assets, was upgraded to a Weiss Safety Rating of B. The seventh-largest bank, Bank of New York...
BUY Stocks On the Rise After a Losing Week
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 12, 201603:01 PM Eastern
At first, the post-election surge in stock values appeared to be short-lived. But nearly five weeks and one short down tick later, it continues to maintain steam with BUY stocks increasing once...
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Dr. Weiss is the founder of Weiss Ratings, the nation’s leading provider of 100% independent grades on stocks, mutual funds and financial institutions, as well as the world’s only ratings agency that grades cryptocurrencies. He founded his company in 1971, and thanks largely to his strict independence, has established a 50-year record of accuracy. Forbes called him “Mr. Independence.” The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that his insurance company ratings outperformed those of A.M. Best, S&P and Moody’s by at least three to one. And The Wall Street Journal reported that investors using the Weiss stock ratings could have made more money than those following the grades issued by Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Standard & Poor’s and every other firm reviewed.