| Smooth Jazz: Black Sabbath’s Paranoid Posted: 23 Jan 2015 03:30 PM PST I can’t explain why, but I find this hilarious: Via The Poke  |
| Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 1/23/15 Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:30 PM PST Succinct Summations week ending January 23rd Positives: 1. ECB to start a QE of their own; 60 billion a month until September 2016 and markets around the world explode higher
2. Housing starts rose 4.4% in December to an annualized pace of 1.09mm coming in much stronger than the 1.2% and 1.02mm expected.
3. The German Dax hit all-time highs.
4. The Dow and S&P 500 have their first positive week of 2015
Negatives: 1. Real yields in parts of the world go negative.
2. Existing home sales in 2014 fell 3.1%
3. NAHB Homebuilder sentiment fell to 57, vs expectations of 58.
4. China GDP rose 7.4% in 2014, from 7.7% in 2013.
5. Building permits declined 1.9% to a pace of 1.03mm, both weaker than expected.
6. Existing home sales rose in December by 2.4% vs expectations for a 3% rise.
7. Initial jobless claims came in at 307k vs 300k expected.
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| Kids “inherit” nostalgia for their parents’ music Posted: 23 Jan 2015 12:00 PM PST |
| Rhetological Fallacies Posted: 23 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST |
| 10 Friday AM Reads Posted: 23 Jan 2015 05:00 AM PST It's Friday already! Busy week snuck by when we weren't looking. No worries, our morning train reads are primed to go: • Relative to bonds, S&P 500 companies may be about as cheap as they've ever been. (Housel)
• Draghi: “There must be a statute of limitations for those who say there will be inflation” LOL (Calculated Risk)
• McDonald’s fixes its marketing, Chipotle fixes its product (Fortune)
• Alternative Assets Approach $7T Despite Headwinds (Chief Investment Officer) see also After Hedge Funds, CalPERS Eyes Private Equity Cuts (Chief Investment Officer)
• Best Books for Investors: A Short Shelf (Total Return)
• The Senate is pretty clearly a hoax (Vox) see also By 98 to 1, U.S. Senate passes amendment saying climate change is real, not a hoax (Science)
• A New Way to Explode a Star? (National Geographic)
• Meet the woman who can't feel fear (Washington Post) see also World With No Fear (NPR)
• Apple App’s store is Bigger than Hollywood (Asymco)
• Hands-on: Microsoft's HoloLens is flat-out magical (Ars Technica)
What are you reading?
The Real Reason Oil Prices Plunged
Source: Fox Business
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