Book notes: How to escape the clutches of depression. Insights from Alex Korb’s The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time. (Larry Swedroe)
Quote of the Day
"Boards understand that the cheapest and most painless way of fending off an activist is to not attract one in the first place, which is why they have become more solicitous of shareholders’ views."
(Stephen Foley)
Markets
- Has the January effect been washed out of the market? (dashofinsight.com)
- Tobin's Q ended below 1.0 in Q3 2015. (disciplinedinvesting.blogspot.com)
- Long canola oil, short crude oil was a great trade in 2015. (managed-futures-blog.attaincapital.com)
Strategy
- Adaptability is a key skill for traders. (financetrends.blogspot.com)
- How teamwork helps in information processing. (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
- Insights on risk from the football coach who never punts. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Offers
- Sign up for a trial of Audible.com and get two free e-books in the process including "The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time." (amzn.to)
- Sign up for a free 30-day trial to Amazon Prime and get streaming video and audio to boot. (amazon.com)
Companies
Finance
- Activist investors are targeting the BDC American Capital ($ACAS). (barrons.com)
- Venice, Italy is underwater, literally and financially. (wsj.com)
Funds
- Edward Jones is making a splash with its Bridge Builder mutual funds. (next.ft.com)
- Value investors are having a rough time of it. (barrons.com)
Global
Economy
- 2015 was the best year on record for hotel occupancy. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- What are inventories telling us about the economy. (conversableeconomist.blogspot.com)
- Americans are still migrating to the South and West. (washingtonpost.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks this week on the site (abnormalreturns.com)
- Multi-factor madness: insights from Josh Brown's "What I learned in 2015..." post. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What books Abnormal Returns readers purchased in December 2015. (abnormalreturns.com)
