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• Friday links: Black Friday frenzy
  abnormalreturns, November 25th, 2010 at 9:24 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day
  Floyd Norris, “So far this year, both gold and stocks are up. That combination is unlikely to last out the current decade.”  (NYTimes)
  Chart of the day

  The story behind how the World Gold Council helped create the spectacularly successful SPDR Gold Trust (GLD).  (WSJ)
  Markets
  Bullish sentiment remains high.  (Pragmatic Capitalism, Horan Capital Advisors)
  Some market [...]

  
  

  Tickers: GLD, STD, WMT

• Wednesday links: channel checks
  abnormalreturns, November 24th, 2010 at 1:43 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day
  Justin Fox, “The corporate profit picture would seem to mirror what’s been going on in the income distribution for individuals for the past few decades.”  (HBR)
  Video of the day

  Howard Lindzon speaks with THE Jim Rogers.  (StockTwitsTV)
  Markets
  Bullish sentiment is still elevated.  (Bespoke)
  Checking in on gold sentiment.  (Marketwatch)
  What really caused the market [...]

  
  

  Tickers: $AAPL, AMZN, CAT, GM

• Wednesday screencast: nature of the game
  abnormalreturns, November 24th, 2010 at 1:42 pm, Comments: 0

  “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” is the opening line from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.  It also describes a smallish debate going on about the state of investment world for individual investors.  In corner we have Henry Blodget who views the ongoing insider trading investigation as [...]

  
  

• ARTV with Joe Weisenthal, part 3
  abnormalreturns, November 24th, 2010 at 10:34 am, Comments: 0

  Prior to the Thanksgiving Day holiday we had a chance to catch up with long time blogger Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart), Deputy Editor of Business Insider, on StockTwits TV.  As always it was a pleasure to talk with Joe.  We started off the discussion with an examination of recent comments by prominent economist David Rosenberg, including [...]

  
  

  Tickers: EURUSD, USDCNY

• Tuesday links: uncritical bullishness
  abnormalreturns, November 23rd, 2010 at 1:01 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day
  Henry Blodget, “The REAL lesson most investors should take away from the largest institutional insider-trading investigation in history is that competition in the global financial markets is so intense that it’s basically idiotic to trade.”  (Huffington Post)
  Tweet of the day
  Peter Thal Larsen, “With a market cap [...]

  
  

  Tickers: GM

• Tuesday screencast: recession revision
  abnormalreturns, November 23rd, 2010 at 11:47 am, Comments: 0

  You wouldn’t think that the revision of third quarter GDP would be particularly noteworthy.  However it helps clarify something that has been going on in the markets for some time now, which we noted in an earlier screencast.  A look at the GDP figures and the attendant corporate profits helps explain why the equity market [...]

  
  

  Tickers: SPY

• Monday links: insider interest
  abnormalreturns, November 22nd, 2010 at 2:06 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day
  Howard Simons, “Diversification still exists, but it takes a little longer to provide its rewards than it did previously.”  (Minyanville)
  Chart of the day

  Some interesting equity market “valuation ovals.”  (Hussman Funds)
  Video of the day

  David Einhorn on WealthTrack.  (via Pragmatic Capitalism)
  Markets
  Muni yields are now well in excess of Treasury yields.  (Bloomberg)
  Another look at [...]

  
  

  Tickers: $AAPL, $MSFT, $VIX, NFLX, NWS

• Monday screencast: ETN vs. ETF
  abnormalreturns, November 22nd, 2010 at 1:18 pm, Comments: 0

  After taking a hit after the financial crisis it seems like the ETN, or exchange traded note, has once again becoming popular.  Issuers, especially in the VIX and MLP space, seem to prefer it over ETFs.  The simple fact that while ETNs and ETFs appear to be interchangeable they are in fact two very different [...]

  
  

  Tickers: $VIX, VXX

• Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
  abnormalreturns, November 21st, 2010 at 10:06 am, Comments: 0

  Thanks for checking in with us this weekend.  Here are the items our readers clicked most frequently on  Abnormal Returns for the week ended Saturday, November 21st.  [...]