Archive for January, 2011

• Monday links: exploiting loopholes
  abnormalreturns, January 24th, 2011 at 1:15 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day James Surowiecki, “The U.S. has an entire regulatory apparatus designed to protect the interests of investors, but Chinese companies have been [...]

• Monday screencast: correlation comedown
  abnormalreturns, January 24th, 2011 at 12:35 pm, Comments: 0

  Much digital ink has been spilled since the onset of the financial crisis discussing the fact that global markets (and individual stocks) had all been [...]

• Monday look-in: inflation fears
  abnormalreturns, January 24th, 2011 at 7:03 am, Comments: 0

  This is the first edition of what we plan to be daily (weekday only) early morning linkfests.  It is essentially a “live look-in” at the [...]

• Sunday links: global gorillas
  abnormalreturns, January 23rd, 2011 at 7:28 am, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Carl Swenlin, “Rather than explaining why the market is wrong, we should be asking, “What is the market doing?”, and acting [...]

• Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
  abnormalreturns, January 23rd, 2011 at 6:25 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, [...]

• Saturday links: incentives and motivations
  abnormalreturns, January 22nd, 2011 at 7:07 am, Comments: 0

  Thanks for checking out another edition in our ongoing experiment in long form curation. As always we welcome your feedback. Michael Mauboussin on incentives, motivations [...]

• Friday links: a rolling correction
  abnormalreturns, January 21st, 2011 at 1:33 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Fred Wilson, “Markets come and go. Good businesses don’t.”  (A VC) Chart of the day The rolling market correction at play.  [...]

• Friday screencast: behind the Google curtain
  abnormalreturns, January 21st, 2011 at 1:23 pm, Comments: 0

  Judging by Google’s stock performance of late you wouldn’t think it was a company in need of an executive shake-up.  However that is exactly what [...]

• Warren Buffett’s priorities
  abnormalreturns, January 21st, 2011 at 9:55 am, Comments: 0

  Warren Buffett is leaving the board of the Washington Post Company (WPO).  He continues to own a nearly 19% stake in the company and he [...]

• Muni bond links: bankruptcy, reflation and reflexivity
  abnormalreturns, January 21st, 2011 at 9:29 am, Comments: 0

  Earlier this week we did a screencast in which we noted the effect the media has played in recent muni bond market action.  When the [...]