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Quote of the Day
"In short, the GE story has about as much flavor as a loaf of white bread."
('Rob Cox)
Markets
- European stocks are sitting at all-time highs. (jlfmi.tumblr.com)
- Beware the flattening yield curve. (sigmundholmes.com)
- Investor sentiment towards commodities is historically bearish. (shortsideoflong.com)
- The state of the market in five charts. (fmdcapital.com)
Strategy
- Why emotional intelligence is important for investors. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- The risks (and rewards) of investing in new managers. (managed-futures-blog.attaincapital.com)
- Too much data gets in the way: why data from the 1800s can lead you astray. (alphaarchitect.com)
Companies
- Beware the Alibaba ($BABA) lockup expiration. (wsj.com)
- Jeff Immelt at GE ($GE) is a reluctant capital allocator. (bloombergview.com)
- A closer look at GM's ($GM) decision to cave to activist demands for share buybacks. (nytimes.com)
ETFs
- The Vanguard Total Bond Index fund is poised to become the nation's largest bond fund. (wsj.com)
- Currency hedged ETFs explained. (etfstore.com)
- Investors have piled into the United States Oil Fund ($USO). (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Global
- Central banks are uniformly cutting interest rates. (charliebilello.tumblr.com)
- The Swedish central bank again cut interest rates. (blogs.wsj.com)
Economy
- What's behind the increase in driving. (newgeography.com)
- A look back at the housing bubble. (bonddad.blogspot.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: IRA insights. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Abnormal Brackets: 2015 edition. Sign up and win cool stuff. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
