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Quote of the Day
"Many things work on paper, but not everything works for everyone in real life."
(Ben Carlson)
China
- China A-shares are at present very expensive to short. (blogs.barrons.com)
- There is little technical reason to bottom-fish in Chinese shares just yet. (seeitmarket.com)
- The Chinese stock market is driven by individual investors. (thereformedbroker.com)
- How Chinese officials have reacted to the stock market's gyrations this year. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Strategy
- Stop anthropomorphizing financial markets. (bloombergview.com)
- We are in the midst of a negative part of the Presidential Election cycle. (marketwatch.com)
- Commodities may be under pressure but that doesn't mean there aren't opportunities. (managed-futures-blog.attaincapital.com)
Finance
- Want to attract an acquisition offer? File for a "secret" IPO. (wsj.com)
- Do high yield investors really know what they own? (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Bond trading is going electronic....slowly. (blogs.wsj.com)
ETFs
- Michael Johnston, "Most of the 1,765 exchange-traded products have little in assets because they aren’t useful to most investors." (etfreference.com)
- The battle over non-transparent ETFs is still clear as mud. (investmentnews.com)
- The ETF Deathwatch for July 2015. (investwithanedge.com)
Global
- Yield spreads and the prospects for a global recession. (econbrowser.com)
- The UK economy is outperforming the FTSE. (blogs.wsj.com)
Economy
- Domestic auto sales are red hot. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Home prices are not back to record levels. (blogs.wsj.com)
- Why raising interest will be tricky for the Fed. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: unstable wealth. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Announcing the biggest, baddest Abnormal Returns giveaway yet. (abnormalreturns.com)