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How Much Insurance Do You Need?

It’s mid-November, which thankfully means hurricane season is winding down here in South Florida.
From roughly late August to the end of October, we Floridians (as well as many others on the Atlantic and the Gulf coasts) keep a close eye not only on weather reports but also on what is brewing hundreds of miles away in the ocean.
We dodged a bullet this year when Hurricane Dorian, which ravaged the Bahamas, narrowly missed my area. Store shelves were empty, gas stations had no more fuel and houses were shuttered up.
Once you’ve been through a hurricane, you respect their power and don’t …read more […]

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Farmland Partners: 3Q Earnings Snapshot

DENVER (AP) _ Farmland Partners Inc. (FPI) on Monday reported a loss in funds from operations in its third quarter, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The Denver-based real estate investment trust said it had a funds from operations loss of $2 million, or 6 cents per share, in the period. …read more […]

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Google signs healthcare data and cloud computing deal with Ascension

The Wall Street Journal earlier reported Google teaming up with Ascension to collect personal health-related information of millions of Americans across 21 states. The partnership will also explore artificial intelligence and machine learning applications to help improve clinical effectiveness as well as patient safety, Ascension said in a statement. Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian has made it a priority in his first year on the job to aggressively chase business from leaders in six industries, including healthcare. …read more […]

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UPDATE 1-Google signs healthcare data and cloud computing deal with Ascension

Alphabet Inc’s Google signed its biggest cloud computing customer in healthcare yet, according to an announcement on Monday, gaining with the deal datasets that could help it tune potentially lucrative artificial intelligence tools. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported Google teaming up with Ascension to collect personal health-related information of millions of Americans across 21 states. The partnership will also explore artificial intelligence and machine learning applications to help improve clinical effectiveness as well as patient safety, Ascension said in a statement. …read more […]

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GLOBAL MARKETS-Dollar, stocks slip amid trade deal uncertainty

The dollar slid and global equity markets fell on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks over the weekend dashed investor optimism that Washington and Beijing would soon reach a deal to end their debilitating trade war. Moody’s warning on Britain’s sovereign debt weighed on shares in London, while escalating violence in Hong Kong led Asian equities to their biggest daily decline since August, boosting demand for the safe-haven yen and Swiss franc. Trump said on Saturday that the U.S.-Sino trade talks were moving along “very nicely” but more slowly than he would have liked. …read more […]

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Two Strong Triggers for Intercontinental Exchange

Would you like to invest – or perhaps even trade – a company that benefits from increased market volatility?
If so, then you’ll be very interested in today’s Trade of the Day on Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE).
Intercontinental Exchange operates regulated exchanges for commodity, financial, fixed-income, and equity markets in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Asia, Israel and Canada.
Its marketplaces for trading and clearing cover a vast array of asset classes, including energy and agricultural commodities, metals, interest rates, equities, credit derivatives, exchange-traded funds, bonds, and currencies.
In other words, the more people who trade, the better Intercontinental Exchange …read more […]