Tuesday, June 27, 2017

"How Travel can be an Education for Investors and Could Possibly End Up Saving Your Life and Fortunes"

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Wrapping up our homage to Gerald Loeb on the occasion of the 60th installment of the Gerald M. Loeb Awards for Financial and Business Report...

"Why Amazon Buying Whole Foods Will Attract Serious Antitrust Scrutiny"

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Following on the news of the EC's Google fine I think we'll continue looking at monopoly power and antitrust for one more post. ...

Ken Fisher's Forward to Gerald Loeb's "The Battle For Investment Survival"

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Back in 2010 we noted the diamond anniversary of Mr. Loeb's book with a series of posts, Here is the first of those: Happy 75th Anniv...

"New Apple Patent Describes Sleep Tracking System With Bedtime Ritual Sensing and Power Nap Function" (AAPL)

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Tell me of this 'Power Nap Function' you speak of. Are we now able to compress time? More importantly, will I have to close the of...

"Gerald Loeb's Strategies For Winning On Wall Street Still Ring True"

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Following up on our earlier " Ahead of Tonight's Gerald Loeb Awards for Financial and Business Reporting... ". We'll have ...

FAA Kills Off Uber For Private Jets and That Time Iron Maiden Owned Kanye

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From Reason: How the FAA Killed Uber for Planes Flight-sharing helped fill seats on small, private trips and cut costs. But regulators st...

Facing a Record €2.42 billion ($2.7bn) Fine, Google Says It Respectfully Disagrees

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First up, Red Herring: Google Faces Record Fine over Search Results The European Commission has fined Google €2.42 billion ($2.7bn), a...

McAfee and Brynjolfsson: "Q&A: Running a company in an era of “crazy technological progress”"

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From MIT News, June 27: New book by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson surveys tech’s challenges for business. How do ongoing advances...

Ahead of Tonight's Gerald Loeb Awards for Financial and Business Reporting...

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We like Mr. Loeb's thinking and we like FinBiz journos (they give us some of our best ideas). From UCLA's Anderson School of Manag...

Qatar: Helium shortage looms

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The helium shortage is always coming, to date we don't have many substitutes for the element, but the arrival of the crisis keeps gettin...

Signposts: "This start-up is using robots and 3-D printers to staff a factory with almost no humans"

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From CNBC: Voodoo Manufacturing has a factory in Brooklyn consisting of 160 3-D printers. It raised $5 million from General Catalyst t...
Monday, June 26, 2017

News from Illinois

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On Friday the State of Illinois will be downgraded to junk status, the first state in the U.S. to achieve this debt rating. That's the ...

Qatar: U.S. Says Saudi/GCC Demands 'very difficult' to Meet

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From theNewArab: The United States Secretary of State said on Sunday that the list of 13 demands imposed on Qatar would be "very dif...

Rising Rate Environment: "Duration Timing with Style Premia"

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We do not recommend attempts at trading the yield curve for most portfolios. As we've said elsewhere, if your mandate says you have to ...

The Top 100 Hedge Funds

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From Barron's Penta, June 17: Who’s up and who’s down in our exclusive list of top hedge funds. Quants dominate overall, but a value ma...