Hardware: Why you should buy your parents a Google Chromebook. The Wirecutter says the Toshiba Chromebook 2 is the current best bet. (The Verge)
Quote of the Day
"Paper trading does little to prepare you for when you are trading for real and the market delivers a real punch. Because you are not used to feeling the emotional as well as the financial pressure, it will be unlikely that you will make the same decisions you did in your practice sessions."
(Mark Minervini)
Chart of the Day
There is no shortage of chatter around Twitter ($TWTR) but the stock has realy just gone down.
Markets
- Major asset class performance in January 2016. (capitalspectator.com)
- There were ZERO IPOs in January. (wsj.com)
Strategy
- The market is paying too much attention to oil. (newyorker.com)
- One of the great things about dividends: they grow over time. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Offers
- With a 30 day trial of Kindle Unlimited you can read books for free including Meb Faber's new book "Invest With the House." (amazon.com)
- Amazon Prime is also allows for the streaming of millions of songs. Start a free-trial now! (amazon.com)
Companies
Finance
- Activist investors are quite fallible of late. (wsj.com)
- Blackstone ($BX) is sorting through the new pile of distressed debt. (bloomberg.com)
- JP Morgan ($JPM) just bought a big portfolio of Lending Club ($LC) loans. (blogs.ft.com)
Funds
- Comparing the SPDR DoubleLine Total Return Tactical ETF ($TOTL) against the PIMCO Total Return ($BOND). (etf.com)
- Are TIPS for 'losers'? (fmdcapital.com)
Global
- The Bank of Japan is innovating on the QE front. (blogs.ft.com)
- The China slowdown is a multi-year story. (crackerjackfinance.com)
- EM debt investors are flocking to Mexico. (wsj.com)
Economy
- The January ISM manufacturing report was still under 50.0. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- What might the next US recession look like? (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Has ZIRP killed the value of the slope of the yield curve as a recession indicator? (bloomberg.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: analyst optimism. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What books Abnormal Returns readers purchased in January 2016. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
