Book notes: 6 things learned from Greg Ip’s Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe. (The Waiter’s Pad)
Quote of the Day
"Wi-Fi is like air for living a digital life. You want as much of it as you can get, everywhere."
(Walt Mossberg)
Markets
- The stock market is not more volatile that it has been historically. (fool.com)
- An emerging market trend that may surprise you. (thereformedbroker.com)
- The S&P 500 doesn't want to fall below 16.5x earnings. (ritholtz.com)
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Companies
- Yahoo's ($YHOO) board is just awful. (nytimes.com)
- The market is skeptical about the prospects for the Allergan ($AGN)-Pfizer ($PFE) deal. (bloomberg.com)
Media
- Does a Time ($TIME)-Yahoo ($YHOO) tie-up make sense? (nymag.com)
- Bill Simmons' The Ringer is going to be hosted on Medium. (medium.com)
Finance
- To be a trader on Wall Street these days it helps to have PhD and be able to code. (nytimes.com)
- SAC Capital alumni have been doing alright. (bloomberg.com)
- Good luck try to find a manager that can generate the returns you seek. (researchpuzzle.com)
Funds
- Two big arguments against index funds fall short. (news.morningstar.com)
- Ken Fisher's returns are a tale of two periods. (mebfaber.com)
- Funds that hold lots of ETFs tend to underperform. (blogs.barrons.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Startup links: orphaned investments. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
