Archive for October, 2010

• Wednesday screencast: Warren’s wages
  abnormalreturns, October 27th, 2010 at 12:02 pm, Comments: 0

  Despite much of the media coverage of him, Warren Buffett is not a saint, nor does he have a perfect investment record.  However criticizing him [...]

• Tuesday screencast: Big Blue buybacks
  abnormalreturns, October 26th, 2010 at 12:10 pm, Comments: 0

  In a screencast a few months ago we noted that IBM had recently issued debt at a yield below its own dividend yield.  This is [...]

• Tuesday links: a radical transformation
  abnormalreturns, October 25th, 2010 at 12:20 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Michael Pettis, “If the renminbi ever becomes a major trading or reserve currency, it is going to take a long time [...]

• Monday links: fixing the dinosaur
  abnormalreturns, October 25th, 2010 at 12:16 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Malcolm Gladwell, “To someone like Rattner, there is nothing wrong with giving a dinosaur money if you think you can fix [...]

• Monday screencast: Microsoft catalysts?
  abnormalreturns, October 25th, 2010 at 11:36 am, Comments: 0

  A couple of months ago we did a screencast noting the fact that some high profile value investors had taken a shine to Microsoft stock.  [...]

• Sunday links: cream of the crop
  abnormalreturns, October 24th, 2010 at 5:55 am, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day David Merkel, “Play to win, yes, but even more, play to survive, so that you can play longer.”  (Aleph Blog) Markets [...]

• Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
  abnormalreturns, October 24th, 2010 at 5:54 am, Comments: 0

  Thanks for checking in with us this weekend.  Here are the items our readers clicked most frequently on  Abnormal Returns for the week ended Saturday, [...]

• Friday links: volatility and correlation
  abnormalreturns, October 22nd, 2010 at 1:13 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Peter J. Henning, “There seems to be the potential for an almost unimaginable amount of litigation arising from the fallout from [...]

• Friday screencast: Bridgewater bets
  abnormalreturns, October 22nd, 2010 at 1:01 pm, Comments: 0

  Earlier this week news leaked out about the fantastic year Bridgewater Associates was having.  At that time there was little indication how they had achieved [...]

• ARTV with Sean McLaughlin
  abnormalreturns, October 22nd, 2010 at 12:23 pm, Comments: 0

  Last night we spoke with Sean McLaughlin (@chicagosean) on StockTwits TV.  We had a great time talking about a range of topics including how traders [...]