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Quote of the Day
"Time might just be the most important, yet least well-understood aspect impacting how investors behaved during these prior market crashes."
(Barry Ritholtz)
Markets
- A wave of dividend suspensions (or cuts) is coming. (sentimentrader.com)
- China's stock market is outpeforming YTD. (capitalspectator.com)
Companies
- Retailers were in trouble before the coronavirus pandemic, now time is running out for many. (wsj.com)
- The auto industry is furloughing more employees as sales grind to a halt. (finance.yahoo.com)
- Most of the growth in Internet traffic is coming from the web, not mobile. (nytimes.com)
Finance
- The Fed is having a hard time figuring out how to support the muni bond market. (wsj.com)
- Employees of Citadel Securities are holed up in a hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. (nytimes.com)
Food
- Why highly processed, comfort food is making a comeback. (nytimes.com)
- Commercial fishing boats are largely tied up for now. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why dairy farmers are dumping milk. (modernfarmer.com)
- There is a bull market in rice. (axios.com)
- Why egg prices are soaring. (wsj.com)
- Pickles are underrated. (marginalrevolution.com)
Masks
- How Etsy ($ETSY) became a hub for face mask sales. (avc.com)
- America's reluctance to wear masks is cultural in nature. (wired.com)
- Should children be wearing masks as well? (slate.com)
- Turkey has ordered the public to wear masks. (nytimes.com)
Covid-19
- 'Test and trace' can work but it requires a loss in privacy. (theatlantic.com)
- Safety protocols are going to have to change for people to get back to work. (marginalrevolution.com)
- What we need to see in terms of coronavirus cases before easing up on restrictions. (scientificamerican.com)
- Why is Utah so much better at testing than other states? (fastcompany.com)
Flattening the curve
- New Zealand has been uniquely effective in slowing the spread of Covid-19. (washingtonpost.com)
- California's early response seems to be paying off. (wsj.com)
Sports
- Centralized sport sites have a lot of appeal, but there are a lot of roadblocks to getting there. (theringer.com)
- Why the UFC is so eager to set up fights. (slate.com)
- Inside the great American kettlebell shortage. (gq.com)
- Sports talk radio hosts have become collective grief counselors. (theringer.com)
Economy
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: a larger lesson. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Compounding doesn't always work for in a positive direction. We are now seeing the downside of compounding in the populace and in Americans' retirement accounts. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: an implicit assumption. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- The pandemic is only going to exacerbate the oversupply of luxury residential projects in New York City. (ft.com)
- In many parts of the world the rich were the vector of Covid-19 transmission. (wsj.com)
- How the Steak-umm's Twitter account became a voice for reason. (fastcompany.com)
- Why shaking hands may be done for good. (newsweek.com)
