Holiday gadget alert! Here are the top 10 home gadgets according to Paste Magazine including the Amazon TV Fire Stick.
Quote of the Day
"The ability to distinguish between volatility and loss is the first casualty of a bear market.”
(Nick Murray)
Chart of the Day
You think this oil crash was bad? Apparently you forgot 2008.
Markets
- Utilities and transports have been big winners in the oil price downdraft. (ritholtz.com)
- Trucking stocks are headed higher. (dragonflycap.tumblr.com)
- Should we be worried about waning risk appetites? (thefelderreport.com)
Strategy
- Are we witnessing a blow off in long-term bonds? (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Don't be a $CUBA muppet. (thereformedbroker.com)
- How investors can win by simply being average. (etf.com)
Companies
- Google ($GOOG) is sitting at 52-week lows. Why? (microfundy.tumblr.com)
- Mobile search is undergoing huge changes. (om.co)
- Twitter ($TWTR) stock had a no good, bad year. (qz.com)
- When Marissa Mayer of Yahoo ($YHOO) tried to be Steve Jobs. (nytimes.com)
- Apple ($AAPL) is at the center of the photo boom. (aboveavalon.com)
- Amazon ($AMZN) is not as unstoppable as it seems. (nytimes.com)
- Why may it not be time to switch to T-Mobile ($TMUS). (fastcompany.com)
Finance
- Peer-to-peer lenders are not yet profitable. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- The (many) ways to spot a trading hoax. (theguardian.com)
- A Pimco fund that lost big on the Russian downdraft. (wsj.com)
ETFs
- Five groundbreaking new bond ETFs in 2014. (etf.com)
- Best/worst ETFs of 2014. (bloomberg.com)
- Deutsche is making headway in the ETF market. (ft.com)
Global
- The brain drain from Putin's Russia is quite impressive. (businessinsider.com)
- Don't expect oil prices to stay down here indefinitely. (newyorker.com)
- Are the Chinese prone to speculative frenzies? (fortune.com)
Economy
- No matter how you slice it inflation was muted in November. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Wages are on the rise. (bonddad.blogspot.com)
- America's industrial economy is booming, except for the jobs. (themoneyillusion.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- A new edition of weekly personal finance links including a look at robo-advisor Betterment. (abnormalreturns.com)
- More undervalued posts from the financial blogosphere: second-order thinking. (abnormalreturns.com)
- A new edition of weekly startup/VC links including a look at startup boards. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
