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By Alaina Dorsey, via Cash Color Cannabis. Maryland’s medical cannabis industry is slowly expanding. And, at least from my standpoint, things are looking pretty damn dope for Black people around here. No matter where your interests lie in cannabis (hemp, wellness, nutrition, community...

Following the latest earnings calls by education companies, the prospects of private higher education stocks under coverage seem brighter than that of K-12 stocks, according to Goldman Sachs. Private Higher Education Schools Goldman Sachs’ Christine Cho maintained a Buy rating on private...

George Laurer, who designed the bar code that revolutionized merchandise tracking and retailing, has died. He was 94. The Washington Post reported Wednesday night that Lauer died at his home in Wendell, N.C., near Raleigh, according to his son Craig. Designed Bar Code At IBM Laurer was working as...

Stock buyers only have one primary concern when it comes to making money — is the stock price rising or falling? Short sellers, on the other hand, must also keep track of their borrowing costs or a profitable trade could easily turn into a loser. The vast majority of stocks available to...

The Federal Reserve issued its monthly statement on Wednesday, and one of the primary areas of interest for investors is the Fed “dot plot” chart for 2020. What Is The Fed Dot Plot? Investors get monthly interest rate updates from the Fed throughout the year, but four times per year the...

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Every year, Time recognizes one person, group of people or an inanimate object that influenced the course of the year, for better or worse.  Someone has filled each slot since 1927. This year, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg joined a list that includes Bill Gates, the computer, Richard...

The decade-long bull market has produced some huge gains, including a 10-year return of 183.6% for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY). Unfortunately, it’s likely many individual investors missed out on a large portion of those gains. The Numbers A recent study by DALBAR found that...

A group of students and education advocacy groups have sued the University of California, claiming the removal of standardized tests like SAT and ACT for college admissions, according to The Wall Street Journal reports. What Happened A group of students and organizations filed a lawsuit in...

Oakland University in Michigan recently announced it will launch a varsity esports program next fall, investing $100,000 into the program, which will offer partial scholarships to student gamers. The team will play “Super Smash Bros.,” “Rocket League” and “League of...

Technical traders are always looking for signals that a stock could be due for a change in direction. Given that stocks rarely move in one direction for too long without periodic retracements, a stock that has endured heavy selling pressure and has become “oversold” may be a potential...

Mike Calhoun was dismissed as a doomsdayer when he sounded the alarm on subprime mortgages ahead of the 2008 housing market crash. "We projected over 2 million subprime mortgage foreclosures, and the response was we were ridiculed by the industry," Calhoun, the president of the Center for...

High value plastics like the ones found in Coca-Cola Co> (NYSE: KO) discarded bottles can be recycled and reused into new bottles, according to company CEO James Quincey. What Happened Coca-Cola is able to re-use discarded bottles into new ones and the company is now experimenting how it can...

By The Fresh Toast's Brendan Bures, provided exclusively to Benzinga Cannabis. An overwhelming majority of Americans believe CBD products fall under FDA regulations, but those regulations don’t exist. The cannabis industry has waited all year for the Food and Drug Administration’s...

Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve chairman who curbed a decade of high inflation and tightened the reins on commercial banks after the 2008 financial collapse, died Monday at 92. Volcker got his start in the Treasury Department during the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations. There, he...