Category: Commodities

Personal finance links: a proven failure

Commodities

Sunday links: disappearing benchmarks

Market Expert Jun 8, 2026

MarketsCorporate profit margins rule all. (tker.co)AI trades are not a US-only phenomenon. (awealthofcommonsense.com)Good luck trying to forecast earnings a decade out. (ritholtz.com)ETFsA change is coming for cannabis stocks and ETFs. (sherwood.news)What makes for a successful liquid alts ETF. (hedgeco.net)AIAnthropic is now calling for a slowdown in AI development. (semafor.com)OpenAI wants to take the chat out of ChatGPT. (spyglass.org)ImmigrationWell-funded startups are still able to hire H-1B workers. (pitchbook.com)There has not been a surge of denaturalizations under Trump. (npr.org)Eliminating birthright citizenship causes its own set of problems. (nytimes.com)LawWhat happens when the courts can no longer trust DOJ attorneys? (thebulwark.com)Why lawyers are fleeing federal government jobs. (nytimes.com)How the Trump administration wants to preempt whistleblowers. (theatlantic.com)Publicly acknowledged donors to Trump's ballroom keep winning federal contracts. (washingtonp

Commodities

Friday links: changing the mood

Market Expert Jun 7, 2026

MarketsGold is well off its highs. (axios.com)Semiconductor stocks have taken a hit from their highs. (semafor.com)ASML Holding ($ASML) is Europe's most valuable company, ever. (bloomberg.com)When do rising interest rates start to matter? (trendlabs.com)Is an AI bubble inevitable? (awealthofcommonsense.com)ETFsLow costs matter, even for Bitcoin ETFs. (wsj.com)The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF ($VOO) has crossed $1 trillion in assets. (etf.com)Private assetsBlackstone ($BX) is having to gate Bcred. (wsj.com)Private credit lenders are now tightening up their lending standards. (wsj.com)IPOsS&P took a stand. (philbak.substack.com)S&P stands alone among index providers when it comes to SpaceX. (ft.com)The vast majority of American investors will soon be SpaceX shareholders. (thebulwark.com)A look at the investors who are going to clean up on SpaceX. (om.co)Traders and investor should view SpaceX differently. (aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)You are under no obligation to have an opinion about the

Commodities

Tuesday links: stretching your brand

Market Expert Jun 4, 2026

StrategyThere is no one perfect way to invest. (awealthofcommonsense.com)There is no obligation to performance chase. (behaviouralinvestment.com)The case for investing in family-led companies. (mastersinvest.com)IPOsHow the IPO market stacks up in 2026. (ft.com)How the mega-IPOs will change the stock market. (morningstar.com)Convertible bond issuance is booming. (ft.com)ETFsIndex fund providers are no longer neutral players. (philbak.substack.com)A closer look at the Calamos US Equity Autocallable Income ETF ($CAIE). (larryswedroe.substack.com)Berkshire HathawayBerkshire Hathaway ($BRK.A) has doubled down on the housing market. (wsj.com)Why Berkshire Hathaway ($BRK.A) bought a big stake in Google ($GOOGL). (barrons.com)CompaniesThese CEOs earned some unusual 'additional compensation' in 2025. (ft.com)Salesforce ($CRM) has a stake in Anthropic worth about $5 billion. (bloomberg.com)VCsAI is killing startups founded before ChatGPT. (cnbc.com)Defense tech investment has surged. (news.c

Commodities

Wednesday links: the returns to being rich

Market Expert Jun 4, 2026

MarketsFive thoughts about the stock market including the surge in earnings. (ritholtz.com)Investors are constantly having to learn new vocabulary. (trendlabs.com)FinanceCitadel wants to pay other hedge funds for ideas. (finance.yahoo.com)AlphaSense is valued at $7.5 billion in a new fundraising round. (wsj.com)Jane Street and Citadel Securities generated combined revenues of $114bn last year. (ft.com)Private assetsPartners Group has capped withdrawals at its flagship private equity fund for wealthy individuals. (ft.com)Cliffwater saw a big redemption request for its flagship private credit fund. (bloomberg.com)CompaniesAmazon ($AMZN) has overtaken Walmart ($WMT) to claim the top spot in the Fortune 500. (nypost.com)How OpenAI lost its lead to Anthropic. (sherwood.news)Microsoft ($MSFT) wants in on the super-app game. (spyglass.org)The PentagonThe U.S. has a missile interceptor deficit. (axios.com)The Pentagon has hired a January 6th rioter for a counterterrorism job. (wapo.st)Econo

Commodities

Monday links: a captured agency

Market Expert Jun 2, 2026

May 2026The S&P 500 returned 5.26% in May 2026. (on.spdji.com)How major asset classes performed in May 2026. (capitalspectator.com)IPOsAnthropic has filed to go public. (techcrunch.com)Investors are finding new ways to get into pre-IPO shares. (bloomberg.com)ETFsDoes the world really need prediction market-based ETFs? (morningstar.com)Who's the target market for target date corporate bond ETFs? (obliviousinvestor.com)Berkshire HathawayMax Anderson, "Buffett built his legacy not just through genius investing, but through developing a reputation for doing business the right way." (theweekendreader.substack.com)Berkshire Hathaway ($BRK.A) is buying Taylor Morrison ($TMHC). (finance.yahoo.com)AICanary Data, makes AI software for professional financial analysts and investors. (wsj.com)How Schneider Electric uses AI. (nytimes.com)How StockTwits uses AI. (howardlindzon.com)EuropeWhy Spain's economy is outperforming. (theatlantic.com)How Germany lost its way. (nytimes.com)Europe needs immigr

Saturday links: an infinite comparison engine

Commodities

Sunday links: taking a stake

Market Expert Jun 1, 2026

MarketsThere's little sign of stress in the financial markets. (trendlabs.com)Why the stock market often seems to defy common wisdom. (tker.co)PodcastsPatrick O'Shaughnessy talks with Dan Loeb of Third Point game. (youtube.com)Jon Reeder talks with CEO of Fairlight Capital. (podcasts.apple.com)Jim O'Shaughnessy talks with Jason Buck, founder and CIO of Mutiny Funds. (newsletter.osv.llc)Fund managementWhy aren't more ETFs closing? (insight.factset.com)How MSCI ($MSCI) rode the index boom. (fiscal.ai)Venture capitalIt's the Wild West when it comes to AI company secondaries. (cashandcarried.substack.com)How to use data to make for better venture investments. (gettheleverage.com)CompaniesOm Malik, "Whether it is OpenAI or Anthropic, revenue cannot be resolved without an S-1." (om.co)Multinational companies are cashing in on the use of tax havens since the start of 2025. (nytimes.com)Michael Dell's ($DELL) bet on Trump has paid off. (cnbc.com)A renewed fertility push isn't great for contr

Commodities

Friday links: sticking to the rules

Market Expert May 30, 2026

Prediction marketsKalshi is launching the American (political) Power Index. (axios.com)Kalshi and Coinbase ($COIN) are now offering perpetual futures. (cnbc.com)On the state of insider trading on prediction markets. (bloomberg.com)AIAnthropic has run past OpenAI, valuation-wise. (pitchbook.com)Inference-focused companies are generating revenues and investor interest. (newcomer.co)Companies are coming to terms with their spending on tokens. (wsj.com)HousingNew Zealand home prices are down some 16% from their peak. (bloomberg.com)Housing is a resource like any other for the economy. (buttondown.com)EconomyLooking for evidence that AI is taking jobs. (apollo.com)Eight measures of U.S. prices. (econbrowser.com)The crackdown on immigration is pushing population growth toward 0%. (axios.com)Earlier on Abnormal ReturnsWhat you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)Longform links: moving the algorithm. (abnormalreturns.com)Don't miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail new

Personal finance links: measuring wealth

Commodities

Wednesday links: running the playbook

Market Expert May 29, 2026

MarketsCorporate profit margins keep rising. (chartkidmatt.com)Micron ($MU) is the fastest company, by far, from $500 billion to $1 trillion in market cap. (wsj.com)ETFsCharles Schwab ($SCHW) and Vanguard are neck-and-neck when it comes to ETF fees. (citywire.com)The Roundhill Memory ETF ($DRAM) is the fastest ETF to $10 billion and $11 billion... (ft.com)SpaceXFTSE Russell wants in on the SpaceX bandwagon. (ft.com)Do data centers in space make sense? (stratechery.com)Eli LillyEli Lilly ($LLY) is on a buying spree outside of its obesity business. (msn.com)Eli Lilly ($LLY) is buying three vaccine startups. (wsj.com)AIHow the bests analysts use AI. (optimisticallie.com)Do we really want to interact with 'digital twins'? (om.co)How writers can use AI without letting AI actually write. (slate.com)CybersecurityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been gutted. (axios.com)What Mythos is teaching security researchers. (politico.com)Inside the UK's A.I. Security Institute.