Q&A: With Emily Chang author of the high-profile Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boy’s Club of Silicon Valley. (NYTimes)
Quote of the Day
"If a 6% daily drop makes you squirm, then you probably have too much invested in stocks for your own psychological good."
(Jason Zweig)
The VIX
- Yesterday saw a a historic rise in the $VIX. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
- How much did short covering play in the rise in the $VIX? (themacrotourist.com)
- Why we should expect to see more volatility. (priceactionlab.com)
Strategy
- Fancy arguments about big down days are a waste of time. (pragcap.com)
- Nobody really knows why the stock market fell. (evidenceinvestor.co.uk)
- It's never too late to review your portfolio. (priceactionlab.com)
Crypto
- Bitcoin doesn't seem to be much of a hedge for the stock market. (bloomberg.com)
- On the fate of the wave of new cryptocurrency-focused hedge funds. (hackernoon.com)
Companies
- Why the big media companies are looking to get even bigger. (ft.com)
- Facebook ($FB) is laying out a lot on capital expenditures. (bloomberg.com)
Apple HomePod
- The new Apple ($AAPL) HomePod sounds great. (theverge.com)
- The HomePod is shipping with limited capabilities. (nytimes.com)
- The HomePod is great, but wait to buy it. (om.co)
- The HomePod is not a 'smart' speaker yet. (wsj.com)
Finance
- Ben Hunt, "Financial innovation is always and in all ways one of two things — a new way of securitizing something or a new way of leveraging something." (epsilontheory.com)
- Reg A+ IPOs have not fared well for investors. (wsj.com)
Funds
- Why Inverse VIX ETFs got crushed yesterday (and during the after hours). (etf.com)
- How volatility busted a volatility ETN. (wsj.com)
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Economy
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: the best known factors. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- ETF links: a growing blob. (abnormalreturns.com)
