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Quote of the Day
"Fed is hoping that they have done enough to ensure a soft-landing for the economy. Given how much easing is already in place and the current condition of the economy, they anticipate that rates will hold steady deep into 2020."
(Tim Duy)
Markets
- How major asset classes performed in November 2018. (capitalspectator.com)
- New highs are nothing to be afraid of. (disciplinedinvesting.blogspot.com)
- Something unusual happened this past decade with US equities. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Finance
- North American private equity firms are sitting on a record amount of 'dry powder.' (wsj.com)
- Credit unions have grown twice as quickly as banks during the past ten years. (wsj.com)
Funds
- Specialists are more adept at generating alpha. Generalists at gathering assets. (ft.com)
- Bond ETFs gathered more assets than equity ETFs in 2019. (ft.com)
Global
- Frontier markets are taking advantage of yield-starved investors looking to put money to work. (ft.com)
- All new cell phone users in China must now have their face scanned. (technologyreview.com)
Economy
- The November ISM report shows continued contraction in manufacturing. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- The perfect storm that is growing e-commerce and an overstored America. (ritholtz.com)
- Trumponomics has done little to revive Midwest manufacturing. (ft.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Adviser links: making good decisions. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Cultivating passion and purpose in your life. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)