Archive for February, 2011

• Wednesday screencast: exchange politics
  abnormalreturns, February 16th, 2011 at 12:32 pm, Comments: 0

  Markets are constructs.  By that we mean that men (and women) define the parameters by which a market operates.  Sometimes we forget that simple lesson.  [...]

• Wednesday look-in: much hyped and overblown
  abnormalreturns, February 16th, 2011 at 6:47 am, Comments: 0

  Good morning and welcome to another edition of our early morning linkfest.  Tell us what you think. Steve Cohen, of SAC Capital, opens up about [...]

• Tuesday links: piling in
  abnormalreturns, February 15th, 2011 at 1:15 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Tim Duy, “In short, the tech bubble was a wild ride, but I am wary about declaring it an absolute failure [...]

• Tuesday screencast: heterogeneous outcomes
  abnormalreturns, February 15th, 2011 at 12:54 pm, Comments: 0

  It is difficult to avoid all the talk about social media/Internet 2.0 investment talk, especially when the news comes out that JP Morgan Chase is [...]

• Tuesday look-in: slack surprises
  abnormalreturns, February 15th, 2011 at 6:53 am, Comments: 0

  Good morning and welcome to another edition of our early morning linkfest.  Tell us what you think. Have we run out of positive economic surprises [...]

• Monday links: bad for the little guy
  abnormalreturns, February 14th, 2011 at 2:21 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Baruch, “If you think over-powerful investors trading with inside information is bad for the little guy, wait until you see what [...]

• Monday screencast: margin squeezes
  abnormalreturns, February 14th, 2011 at 12:25 pm, Comments: 0

  Just because there isn’t rampant inflation, doesn’t mean that rising prices, especially for food, can’t affect corporate bottom lines.  China’s falling trade surplus is due [...]

• Monday look-in: two-track markets
  abnormalreturns, February 14th, 2011 at 6:49 am, Comments: 0

  Good morning and welcome to another edition of our early morning linkfest.  Tell us what you think. Felix Salmon, “Only the biggest and oldest companies [...]

• Sunday links: an unhappy bull market
  abnormalreturns, February 13th, 2011 at 7:08 am, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Eli Radke, “Admitting when you are wrong does not necessarily make you a better person. It does make you a better [...]

• Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
  abnormalreturns, February 13th, 2011 at 6:01 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, [...]