Notes: The Underground Culinary Tour: How the New Metrics of Today’s Top Restaurants are Transforming How America Eats by Damian Mogavero on the high expectations of diners today. (Bloomberg)
Quote of the Day
"Creativity begins with new inputs: we're most likely to achieve new insights when we look at new things and contemplate old things in new ways."
(Brett Steenbarger)
Markets
Strategy
Offers
- You can watch the first episode of the Bryan Cranston series "Sneaky Pete" for free on Amazon Video. (amazon.com)
- Sign up for Audible.com and get two free audiobooks including Edward Thorp's "A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market." (amazon.com)
- Pre-order Market Wizard Tony Saliba's forthcoming "Managing Expectations: Driving Profitable Option Trading Outcomes Through Knowledge, Discipline, and Risk Management" and get a free e-book and audiobook. (martinkronicle.com)
Companies
- How Amazon's Alexa got such a jump in voice computing. (businessinsider.com)
- Lens maker Essilor is buying Luxottica ($LUX) to create a vertically integrated eyeglass giant. (wsj.com)
- Snap ($SNAP) shareholders aren't going to get any votes. (wsj.com)
Funds
Global
- A border tax, if passed, would have huge implications. (ft.com)
- There's nothing 'soft' or easy about Brexit. (bloomberg.com)
Economy
- Measuring the effects of economic uncertainty. (econbrowser.com)
- Why age discrimination is a trickier problem to solve. (bloomberg.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- ETF links: stock displacement. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Our January book-related link roundup is decidedly finance-light. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Closing the gender gap in asset management one company at a time. (abnormalreturns.com)
- On the value of "strong opinions, weakly held." (abnormalreturns.com)
- The quality anomaly in the real world. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in Sunday's linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
