The sedan market is dying: Auto dealer – Flemington Car & Truck Country Chairman Steve Kalafer on Ford cutting most sedans out of its product lineup.
Whatever happened to Atlantic City? – The boom is back as the seaside city turns to military heroes for jobs.
Where One $20B Asset Manager Sees Strategic Opps When it comes to strategic opportunities, the team at one private-equity-backed Midwestern asset manager is open to M&A, alliances, and internal product development. For their due diligence on potential allies or targets, one factor rises above the rest. “First and foremost, culture is very important to Tortoise […]
DocuSign IPO: 5 things to know about the e-signature company – Obtaining signatures for business documents may not seem like much of a business, but highly valued startup DocuSign Inc. believes it represents a $25 billion market.
Permian Basin Is Growing Into the Largest Oil Patch in the World By Jessica Summers and Sheela Tobben Shale play in Texas, New Mexico to hit record output in May Oil patch seen overtaking Iran by the end of the year The Permian shale play is all about setting records. Now, the region may even […]
Hard Rock Atlantic City announces opening date, entertainment lineup By Joshua Burd The highly anticipated Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City will open its doors June 28, the operator announced Wednesday, as it unveiled a lineup of musical acts and entertainers that it hopes will draw new visitors to the resort town. Read more […]
Hard Rock details what A.C. visitors will find when casino opens June 28 Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City continues to be bullish about its opening in the resort town, with an opening day slated for June 28. Hard Rock International Chairman Jim Allen announced details of the new building, which has replaced the […]
2018 will be a record-breaking year for US energy, says portfolio manager | Rob Thummel, Tortoise Capital Advisors portfolio manager, discusses what’s impacting the price of oil.
Can Humans Understand How Robots Invest? A new ETF buys stocks picked by artificial intelligence. That requires a leap of faith. For a guy who built a robot he hopes will banish human emotion from the investing process, Chida Khatua spends a lot of time trying to figure out how it thinks. Read more here: […]
Spotify benefited from direct listing: Atish Davda – EquityZen CEO Atish Davda on how Spotify benefits from going public and whether other unicorns will follow suit.
A Tech Unicorn Goes to Wall Street – One of the most anticipated tech IPOs of the year is set to debut at the Nasdaq this week. Dropbox will trade under the ticker $DBX. The company gave an initial price range between $16 and $18. Phil Haslett, Co-Founder of EquityZen and Emily Bary, Reporter at MarketWatch join The Long and The Short to give their predictions for the tech company’s big debut.
Is artificial intelligence a better stock picker than humans? – EquBot’s AI-powered equity ETF uses IBM’s Watson to develop a portfolio of stocks that its sponsors argue would beat human fund managers and the overall market.
Bryce Doty, senior vice president with Sit Investment Associates, says the Fed needs to appear more aggressive in order to stay ahead of inflation expectations. Gary Siegel hosts.
International Women’s Day: Meet Ayah Bdeir and Watch Her Take on Legos On this International Women’s Day, meet Ayah Bdeir. Born in Beirut, she is the founder & CEO of littleBits. Her company’s electronic building blocks are quickly going to replace your kids’ Legos and make them love learning. And that’s exactly why she epitomizes […]
Where are the stock winners in this market? – Mahoney Asset Management President Ken Mahoney on the outlook for the economy and markets.
10-Year Treasury yields could get to 4% ‘in a hurry,’ bond fund manager predicts While Wall Street braces for 10-Year Treasury yields to tick over 3 percent, one bond expert believes that will feel like a piece of cake compared to what may come next. Sit Investment Associates’ Bryce Doty believes investors are in “denial” […]
Meet the New ETF Using Artificial Intelligence to Pick Stocks – The AI Powered Equity ETF (AIEQ) uses artificial intelligence to pick stocks. The ETF includes hot tech stocks like Facebook (FB) , Nvidia (NVDA) , Alphabet (GOOGL) and even real estate investment trust Forest City Realty Trust (FCE.A). TheStreet’s Scott Gamm speaks with Art Amador, Co-Founder of EquBot, the firm behind the ETF.
U.S. Oil, Gas to See Record Production, Exports in 2018, Says Thummel – Rob Thummel, Tortoise Capital Advisors portfolio manager, discusses how independent oil producers can influence the global oil market. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Alix Steel on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas.”
GALLERY: Construction on the Hard Rock continues Construction on the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City continues. The property is expected to open over the summer. Hard Rock and investors Jack Morris and Joe Jingoli are spending about $500 million to renovate it. The company expects the project to generate more than 1,000 construction […]
Pearson and Hands-On Science Producer LittleBits Pair Up on New Curriculum The global education corporation Pearson is partnering with littleBits, a maker of hands-on classroom products, on a science curriculum for students in elementary and middle schools. LittleBits, founded in 2011 and based in New York City, sells electronic-focused kits for children. The kits are […]
Oil ‘sweet spot’ is around $55 to $65 a barrel – A trading range of $55 to $65 a barrel supports drillers and keeps consumer demand growing, says Rob Thummel of the Tortoise Capital Advisors.
Oil prices may rise amid Israeli-Iranian conflict – Israeli forces ordered the destruction of an Iranian drone Saturday. Tortoise Capital portfolio manager Robb Thummel discusses the effects of oil prices amid escalating tension between the two countries.
First U.S. Marijuana ETF Celebrates One Month of Trading Last week, the ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF (NYSEArca: MJ Opens a New Window. ) celebrated one month of trading and changed its ticker to “MJ.” “Since its first day of trading on December 26, 2017, the ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF has seen rapid market adoption and […]
Meanwhile, our Q&A today is with Jamie Davis, CEO of USA Volleyball, who – a year after taking on the role – has reworked the structure of the NGB, locked in the org’s biggest partnership ever courtesy of a new deal with adidas, and is now plotting the future of its media strategy. Recent weeks […]
Kynetic CEO: We’re having the best NFL post-season in the history of the company | Michael Rubin, Kynetic founder and CEO, talks about sports apparel sales and says he is “conflicted” because he is a big Patriots fan but the Eagles have never won a Super Bowl.
Bryce Doty, senior president at Sit Investment Associates, discusses the Federal Reserve’s rate path as leadership transitions from Janet Yellen to Jay Powell. He speaks on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas.”
The BlueStar TA-BIGITech Israel Technology ETF (ITEQ) tracks the booming technology sector in Israel. Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas drill down into ITEQ with Steven Schoenfeld, founder and CIO of BlueStar Indexes.
Pearson is adding littleBits kits to its STEM curriculum Manhattan-based startup littleBits has worked hard to shake the “tech toy” label. While the company’s done a good job getting its kid-friendly engineering kits into the hands of schools, a new partnership with Pearson will certainly add an extra bit of legitimacy to the company’s methods. […]
5 Top Stocks to Buy Right Now — According to 1 Top Artificial-Intelligence System An AI-powered ETF really likes these stocks. But why? Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to enable cars to drive themselves, detect cancer, improving search engines, and a lot more. Why not use it for picking stocks? That’s exactly what many […]
Investing idea: Tapping the growth of video games As niche as it may seem, video games are a rapidly rising sector of the technology industry. It is seeing explosive growth due to factors such as the expansion of mobile and online gaming and the shift from physical to digital distribution of software. Read more here: […]