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Quote of the Day
"Investing is a lonely game even if you have a team around you. I would encourage every investor to support your fellow investors."
(Ian Cassel)
Performance
- How major asset classes performed in December 2019. (capitalspectator.com)
- High absolute returns ruled 2019. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
- The best and worst performing sectors of 2019. (visualcapitalist.com)
- A look at asset class performance over the past decade. (rcmalternatives.com)
Markets
- 2019 made investing seem pretty easy. (howardlindzon.com)
- Some 2020 forecasts guaranteed not to be wrong. (ritholtz.com)
Returns
- Why saying 'it's all QE' is not a fair explanation of what happened in stock market. (blogs.uoregon.edu)
- Real interest rates have been falling for centuries. (bloomberg.com)
Strategy
- If you didn't change your mind about anything in investing in the past decade, you are doing it wrong. (thereformedbroker.com)
- Why nobody wants to follow a pessimist. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Big Tech
- The four biggest US tech companies are now worth than $4 trilllion combined. (qz.com)
- Can Microsoft ($MSFT) Teams muscle out Slack ($WORK)? (businessinsider.com)
- Why Apple ($AAPL) is better off without Jony Ive. (medium.com)
- Google ($GOOGL) has "overhauled its global tax structure and consolidated all of its intellectual property holdings back to the US..." (ft.com)
Finance
- Stock market liquidity is waning. (wsj.com)
- Vanguard has eliminated commissions on stock and options trades. (markets.businessinsider.com)
- JP Morgan Chase ($JPM) is moving to ban fintech apps from using customer passwords to access their bank accounts. (ft.com)
Global
- Akane Otani, "The growth rate of a country’s economy and market isn’t necessarily indicative of its residents’ standard of living." (wsj.com)
- China keeps taking moves to shore up economic growth. (nytimes.com)
- For the first time in human history, the median age of a human will be older than 30. (worldin.economist.com)
- Guyana's stock market trades only on Mondays. (wsj.com)
Economy
- Weekly initial unemployment claims are sitting just above historically low levels. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Why the Fed has little desire to change policy course any time soon. (bloomberg.com)
- The US economy is NOT recession-proof. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Startup links: begin again. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Monthly ESG links: shareholder dollars. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Personal finance links: investment regrets. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Stop wasting time. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: running the machine. (abnormalreturns.com)
