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Quote of the Day
"The Bond Vigilantes have been buried by the Fed. However, in our nightmare scenario, they could rise from the dead like Carrie."
(Ed Yardeni)
Strategy
- Three mistakes investors make including confusing luck with skill. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
- Seven evergreen financial headlines you can ignore. (humbledollar.com)
- 10 ways to lose money trading individual stocks. (monevator.com)
Companies
- Cloud computing companies have their own set of metrics that investors are paying attention to. (ft.com)
- The success of Disney+ is pushing Hulu to the backburner. (ft.com)
- What Twitter ($TWTR) can learn from Spotify ($SPOT). (om.co)
- What happens to Zoom ($ZM) in a post-pandemic world. (vox.com)
Finance
- Water futures have started trading on the CME. (bloomberg.com)
- Goldman Sachs ($GS) is exploring the idea of moving some operations to Florida. (reuters.com)
- The Bank of Japan has taken over as the biggest owner of the nation’s stocks often using ETFs. (bloomberg.com)
Venture
- Startups valuations (and deal making) are seeing a year-end push higher. (nytimes.com)
- Mental health focused startups are booming in pandemic. (nytimes.com)
- Sequioa is cashing in on the big year-end IPOs. (bloomberg.com)
IPOs
- The IPO market is back. (crossingwallstreet.com)
- Petco is coming back public. (cnbc.com)
- Airbnb is being pitches as the ultimate post-pandemic play. (ft.com)
- Airbnb and DoorDash are seeing high demand for their IPOs this week. (wsj.com)
- The appeal of SPACs is broadening out. (news.crunchbase.com)
Global
- Sweden has shifted gears toward the pandemic and is imposing additional restrictions. (wsj.com)
- In Brazil's biggest state the coronavirus vaccine will be mandatory. (washingtonpost.com)
- How Melbourne Australia crushed it's second Covid wave. (vox.com)
Pandemic
- States are seeing a reduction in the amount of vaccine they should expect to see in December. (washingtonpost.com)
- Medical schools are seeing a surge in applications in pandemic. (npr.org)
- Europe seems to have turned the corner on the most recent coronavirus wave. (washingtonpost.com)
Economy
- Four measures of labor market losses in pandemic. (bonddad.blogspot.com)
- The pandemic is forcing more people from the workforce. (axios.com)
- The pandemic has dramatically shifted what jobs are available, think warehouses and distribution. (wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Adviser links: a more meaningful goal. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What Abnormal Returns readers clicked on this last week. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter just for advisers. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Bob Dylan has sold his entire songwriting catalog to Universal Music. (wsj.com)
- Spotify ($SPOT) is introducing a new model on how to pay artists. (theundefeated.com)
- Stevie Nicks has sold a majority of her publishing catalog to publisher and talent management company Primary Wave. (rollingstone.com)
