List: Ten finance books worth catching up on this Winter including Peter Bernstein’s Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. (Bloomberg View)
Quote of the Day
"The stock market is full of contrast effects..."
(Jason Zweig)
Markets
- What happens to the stock market when the yield curve is flat. (stockcharts.com)
- Investor sentiment pulled back the last two weeks. (disciplinedinvesting.blogspot.com)
Strategy
- FOMO is a powerful motivator but it is also a return-killer. (safalniveshak.com)
- Great traders collaborate and find multiple ways of making money. (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
Deals
- Amazon Kindle and Kindle Paperwhites are now $30 off. (amazon.com)
- Bose QuietComfort 25 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones are at a huge discount. (amazon.com)
- "Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused" by Mike Dash is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- For the ice lover in your life: the Opal Nugget Ice Maker is currently $50 off. (amazon.com)
- Scott Patterson's "The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It" is still just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
Companies
- GM ($GM) is selling more Bolts than Tesla ($TSLA) sells Model S & X's. (bloomberg.com)
- Activist investors are sniffing around shopping mall stocks. (bloomberg.com)
- Why despite the boom in shale investors are shunning MLPs. (sl-advisors.com)
- Mapping the largest employers in the US by state. (visualcapitalist.com)
Digital media
- Digital media is crashing around us. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
- More digital media companies are thinking of selling out. (bloomberg.com)
- Twitter ($TWTR) needs a better process for verifying user identities. (theringer.com)
Fund management
- Resolved: AQR is the Vanguard of liquid alts. Agree or disagree? (beta.morningstar.com)
- Why Norway SHOULD lighten its exposure to oil stocks. (themacrotourist.com)
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Economy
- Urban Carmel, "Macro economic data is good." (fat-pitch.blogspot.com)
- What CEOs had to say about the economy this week. (avondaleam.com)
- A succinct summary of the week's economic events. (ritholtz.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks this week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: departing women. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Take a deep breath and download Oak today. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The future of financial advice is "high tech, high touch." (abnormalreturns.com)