Archive for December, 2010

• Friday links: turn of the calendar effects
  abnormalreturns, December 31st, 2010 at 11:55 am, Comments: 0

  Here’s wishing all of our loyal readers a happy and healthy New Year.  We will be back this weekend with another edition of our long [...]

• Thursday links: stretched earnings
  abnormalreturns, December 30th, 2010 at 1:05 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Ben Protess, “The trading floors [at colleges] serve a dual purpose: to give students real-world experience and the universities something to [...]

• Thursday screencast: charting clarity
  abnormalreturns, December 30th, 2010 at 12:38 pm, Comments: 0

  It is a cliche to say that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’  Charts help illustrate trends, obvious or not, in the financial markets.  [...]

• Video picks for New Year’s weekend
  abnormalreturns, December 30th, 2010 at 12:14 pm, Comments: 0

  Given that the powers that be have ruined New Year’s Day for college football fans you may have some time on your hands to watch [...]

• Wednesday links: shellshocked CEOs
  abnormalreturns, December 29th, 2010 at 1:48 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Roger Nusbaum, “ETFs are just a tool. I promise you that people in the past have misused every single tool in [...]

• Wednesday screencast: yesterday’s news
  abnormalreturns, December 29th, 2010 at 1:40 pm, Comments: 0

  Are the BRICS yesterday’s news?  Frontier markets outperformed the BRICs by a wide margin in 2010.  The media has now moved onto other emerging markets, [...]

• Tuesday links: future confidence
  abnormalreturns, December 28th, 2010 at 1:49 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Scott Grannis, “By the time everyone recovers their confidence in the future, prices will be a lot higher than they are [...]

• Tuesday screencast: growth vs. value
  abnormalreturns, December 28th, 2010 at 1:41 pm, Comments: 0

  How much time and effort should investors put into trying to time shifts from growth to value, and vice versa?  Our guess is not a [...]

• Monday links: learn and attack
  abnormalreturns, December 27th, 2010 at 1:23 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Tom Brakke, “If you choose to pursue an MBA or a CFA, remember that they are built upon orthodoxy, by and [...]

• Monday screencast: perfection denied
  abnormalreturns, December 27th, 2010 at 11:34 am, Comments: 0

  There are no perfect measures of sentiment or market valuation.  Any one who has done even a cursory examination of these two market influences will [...]