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Quote of the Day
"We cannot feel helpless if we're actively helping."
(Brett Steenbarger)
Markets
- The velocity of market moves is pretty much unprecedented. (wsj.com)
- How all the short-VIX trades blew up. (wsj.com)
- Gold has not served as an absolute safe haven. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
Strategy
- Ben Carlson, "The most important decisions you will make as an investor come during a market crash situation." (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- The math of market declines (and their rebounds). (ofdollarsanddata.com)
- Does the US equity market still deserve a valuation premium? (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- It's okay to not trade during this period. (allstarcharts.com)
Industries
- Retail was struggling even before the crisis hit. What would a bailout accomplish? (nytimes.com)
- Non-essential Amazon ($AMZN) deliveries are getting pushed out. (arstechnica.com)
Companies
- How to think about Berkshire Hathaway ($BRK.A), stock and company, in the coronavirus age. (rationalwalk.com)
- Softbank is planning to sell assets to buyback stock and outstanding debt. (wsj.com)
- Winnebago ($WGO) is shutting down production. (businessinsider.com)
Exchanges
- Coronavirus could be the end of Chicago's futures trading floors. (chicagobusiness.com)
- The NYSE is operating without floor traders. (qz.com)
Private equity
- Private equity firms are going to have to make some difficult decisions about their portfolio companies. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- What are energy companies worth? No one really knows. (institutionalinvestor.com)
Bond ETFs
- The perception of bond ETFs has likely changed for good. (finance.yahoo.com)
- Why bond pricing is difficult during a crisis. (etf.com)
Covid-19
- WHO is testing for promising treatments on a global basis. (sciencemag.org)
- A Covid-19 antibody test will be an important tool moving forward. (nymag.com)
- Stealth transmission is driving Covid-19 infections. (wsj.com)
- Loss of smell, or anosmia, may be an initial telltale sign of Covid-19 infection. (nytimes.com)
- Why some people get so sick from Covid-19 while most don't. (theatlantic.com)
Economy
- On the Fed's 'whatever it takes' announcement. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- A sharp economic contraction is guaranteed, the only question is how deep and how long? (vanguardinstitutionalblog.com)
- It's anyone guess where unemployment claims are going to peak. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Adviser links: connecting and motivating. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)