List: Five books Bill Gates recommends for this summer including Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah. (Gates Notes)
Quote of the Day
"Though there has never been a better time to be an investor, it does not mean that there has never been an easier time to be an investor."
(Phil Huber)
Markets
- The yield curve keeps flattening. (capitalspectator.com)
- The stock market keeps making all-time highs. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
Offers
- Amazon's entire line of Kindles are on sale including the Paperwhite for just $99.99 (amazon.com)
- Sign up for a free trial to Audible.com and two free books including Eric Barker's "Barking up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong." (amazon.com)
- In honor of you-know-who you can currently get $19.89 off an Amazon Music Unlimited plan. (amazon.com)
- Amazon's line of Alexa-powered Echos are on sale including the Echo for just $139.99. (amazon.com)
Companies
- Is Wall Street giving Netflix ($NFLX) a pass on high content costs? (hollywoodreporter.com)
- How Adobe ($ADBE) got its customers to transition to the cloud. (bloomberg.com)
Finance
- 10% of stock volume is being done by 'fundamental' investors. (cnbc.com)
- A profile of ETF trader Flow Traders NV. (bloomberg.com)
Funds
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Economy
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: wasted effort. (abnormalreturns.com)
- MarketWatch.com picked up one of our Blogger Wisdom posts. (marketwatch.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: activist influence. (abnormalreturns.com)