Q&A: Yuval Noah Harari author of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, on the future of mankind. (Fast Company)
Quote of the Day
"The best solution is the most efficient one, but the most efficient solution may not necessarily be the fastest one."
(Brendan Mullooly)
Markets
- Oil stats don't carry much weight these days. (ft.com)
- Emerging market bond investors are not demanding much of a premium these days. (bloomberg.com)
Strategy
- There's no such thing as easy alpha. (vanguardadvisorsblog.com)
-
Brett Steenbarger, "
What you trade is as important as how you trade." (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
Amazon
- How Amazon ($AMZN) Prime is driving growth. (bloomberg.com)
- Three ways in which Amazon ($AMZN) is crushing the competition. (thewaiterspad.com)
Apple
- Apple ($AAPL) thinks there is a lot of growth left in the iPhone. (loopinsight.com)
- Does Apple ($AAPL) still need to do a big media deal? (fortune.com)
Berkshire Hathaway
- Warren Buffett is a huge performance outlier. (brooklyninvestor.blogspot.com)
- Berkshire Hathaway ($BRKA) has a big stake in Monsanto ($MON). (bloomberg.com)
- Berkshire Hathaway ($BRKA) no longer holds Kinder Morgan ($KMI) shares. (bloomberg.com)
Financial Twitter
- Companies can ignore Trump tweets. (axios.com)
- Trading firms are sipping from the Twitter/StockTwits streams. (chicagobusiness.com)
- How not to set up a Twitter monitoring system. (dealbreaker.com)
Finance
- Goldman Sachs ($GS) is back, baby! (blogs.wsj.com)
- Softbank is buying Fortress Investment Group ($FIG). (fortune.com)
- Flow Traders NV has had 31 months of profits in a row. (bloomberg.com)
Hedge funds
- Clients don't like it when your fund company gets popped for bribery. (bloomberg.com)
- Quants are looking for more power at hedge funds. (bloomberg.com)
Offers
- Get Shane Snow's "Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success." (amazon.com)
- "Billions" is back for Season 2! Sign-up for a free-trial for Showtime at Amazon Channels. (amazon.com)
- You can pre-order "Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work" by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal. (amazon.com)
Economy
- CPI is perking up. (thereformedbroker.com)
- America's economy is getting increasingly concentrated. (bloomberg.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: sophisticated and fancy sounding. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Our February round-up looking at the past month's book-related posts. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: research gaps. (abnormalreturns.com)
