Here is a hedge that does very well buying options... From the Wall Street Journal, here... "His firm, Element Capital Management, posted a gain of
Russ Roberts talks to Anat Admati of Stanford on the financial crisis of 2008…
I highly recommend it... http://www.econtalk.org/anat-admati-on-the-financial-crisis-of-2008/ "Anat Admati of Stanford's Graduate School of
Reading list… Ritholtz
Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture offers up his suggested reading list here...
Buybacks higher than capes… The Daily Shot
The chart from the Wall Street Journal’s The Daily Shot shows us capex and stock buybacks on the same chart... The link is here...
A difficult OPEC meeting.. WSJ
Next week’s OPEC meeting should be an interesting one... Here is the oil price chart with implied volatility from barchart.com: Benoit Faucon
Blockchain platform goes live… Reuters
Here are some highlights from Reuters... ”Blockchain, the platform behind cryptocurrency Bitcoin, is viewed by many as a solution to trade and
U of Illinois buys puts…
on tuition from Chinese students: “The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has paid $424,000 to insure itself against a significant drop in
Russian Natural Gas Industry Booms… WSJ
Georgi Kantchev, Wall Street Journal, explains what’s been going on in the Russian gas industry, here... “Directly squaring off against U.S. shale
Gasoline/diesel margins… EIA
The EIA’s Today in Energy, here, highlights a tale of two petroleum products: ”Flattening year-over-year growth in gasoline demand in the United