Archive for December, 2010

• Sunday links: sentiment concerns
  abnormalreturns, December 26th, 2010 at 7:28 am, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Eduardo Porter, “Finance will not be tamed by tweaking the way bankers are paid. But bankers’ pay could be structured to [...]

• Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
  abnormalreturns, December 26th, 2010 at 6:16 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: cocktail culture
  abnormalreturns, December 24th, 2010 at 7:54 am, Comments: 0

  Due to the holiday there will be no long-form linkfest tomorrow.  We hope all our readers have a safe and happy holiday season. Quote of [...]

• Thursday links: a bullish Noel
  abnormalreturns, December 23rd, 2010 at 11:58 am, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Eric Falkenstein, “Think of your prejudices as your ultimate strategy that dictates your tactics.”  (Falkenblog) Chart of the day Relative (vs. [...]

• Wednesday links: economics and psychology
  abnormalreturns, December 22nd, 2010 at 1:28 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day David Merkel, “I don’t have simply one estimate of where things are going, I have many estimates, and it is quite [...]

• Bonus screencast: Japan in 2011
  abnormalreturns, December 22nd, 2010 at 1:25 pm, Comments: 0

  This year is a textbook example of how an economy and its stock market are two different things.  While the economy in the eyes of [...]

• Wednesday screencast: confirmation bias and market analogies
  abnormalreturns, December 22nd, 2010 at 12:04 pm, Comments: 0

  The stock-in-trade of investment strategists and analysts is to compare today’s market to comparable historical markets.  On the face it this seems like a reasonable [...]

• Tuesday links: motives and actions
  abnormalreturns, December 21st, 2010 at 1:41 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Russ Roberts, “The challenge of economics and to journalism is to remind us that motives are less important than actions. People [...]

• Tuesday screencast: gold volatility
  abnormalreturns, December 21st, 2010 at 1:32 pm, Comments: 0

  In yesterday’s screencast we noted how the run-up in Netflix (NFLX) had caused it to become a ‘battleground stock.’  The same could also be said [...]

• Guest post: Meir Statman on the attraction of no-mental loss investments
  abnormalreturns, December 21st, 2010 at 9:28 am, Comments: 0

  We are pleased to offer our readers a guest post by Meir Statman who is the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University.  [...]