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Quote of the Day
"Stock market investing is a game of pain control."
(Michael Harris)
Markets
- Do emerging market equities still merit standalone asset class status? (morningstar.com)
- Do we need to be worried about rock bottom currency volatility? (ft.com)
Strategy
- On the psychology of Tesla ($TSLA) stock. (thereformedbroker.com)
- What is your relationship with the markets? (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
Amazon
- Amazon ($AMZN) Web Services is a beast. (zdnet.com)
- Amazon ($AMZN) Prime will soon be one-day shipping. (edition.cnn.com)
- Amazon ($AMZN) is sensitive about its fake review problem. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
IPOs
- Slack ($SK) files to go public via direct listing. (wsj.com)
- Paypal ($PYPL) is investing $500 million into Uber ($UBER). (venturebeat.com)
Finance
ETFs
Global
Society
- If you're not paying attention to whole 'kiddie influencer' phenomenon on Instagram and YouTube you should be. (theguardian.com)
- American teenagers are increasingly less interested in getting their driver's licenses. (wsj.com)
- Now men in their 20s are freezing their sperm. (washingtonpost.com)
Economy
- US GDP rose at a 3.2% rate in Q1. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- People don't work as much as they say they do. (thebasispoint.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: designing software. (abnormalreturns.com)
- We all need behavioral coaching even if we can't admit it. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Startup links: UI, UX and more. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Teaching the basics of financial literacy with Tony Isola. (abnormalreturns.com)