Tablet review: Geoffrey Fowler writes the $50 Amazon Fire tablet is “is cheap yet good enough to have fun…” (WSJ)
Quote of the Day
"One area I see investors possibly making this mistake today, is in putting too much faith in bullish studies while stocks remain in a downtrend."
(Jesse Felder)
Chart of the Day
Wal-Mart ($WMT) stock has been going down for awhile now.
Markets
- Rapid shifts in volatility are a sign of a new market regime. (pensionpartners.com)
- Does options skew actually tell us anything useful? (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Strategy
- Why home bias is so difficult for us to fight. (researchpuzzle.com)
- Why you need to have muted expectations for bonds. (pragcap.com)
- Everyone has a story of getting a stock right but selling way too soon. (thefelderreport.com)
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Companies
- Why GE ($GE) is getting out of the finance business. (wsj.com)
- PC vendors do the exact opposite of Apple ($AAPL). (theverge.com)
Finance
- The IPO window is ajar but not wide open. (nytimes.com)
- Mobile technology and why the online brokers are going to get unbundled. (howardlindzon.com)
- 7 things learned about the Square IPO. (blogs.wsj.com)
- We're still not sure how public benefits corporations are going to manage their conflicting goals. (nytimes.com)
Funds
- Gaming ETFs, profitably, is harder than it looks. (bloomberg.com)
- ETF managers are shopping their custodian needs. (ft.com)
- Blackrock ($BLK) admits they have a "big data" unit that mines services like Twitter ($TWTR) for insights. (ft.com)
- Like-named ETFs can have very different holdings. (etfreference.com)
- Some thoughts on the SEC's fund liquidity proposals. (news.morningstar.com)
- Why it is challenging to pick a top performing hedge fund manager. (ft.com)
Global
Economy
- About that 2015 Fed rate hike.... (wsj.com)
- We are still in a slow-growth world. (scottgrannis.blogspot.com)
- Doom and gloom sells....but what if the future is better than we think? (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: an unlevel playing field (abnormalreturns.com)
- Personal finance links: superficial feelings. (abnormalreturns.com)
- We are celebrating our tenth blogiversary with a big book giveaway. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Startup links: when to quit. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
