What I'm reading this morning:
- India launches a spacecraft into the atmosphere of Mars - for less than the Hollywood budget of Sandra Bullock's 'Gravity' (New York Times)
- Starbucks is buying out its Japanese franchisee for almost a billion bucks. (Financial Times)
- Regulators want to know if PIMCO's been juicing the returns of its Total Return ETF (Wall Street Journal)
- Is A Market Top Forming? 6 Things To Watch For (See It Market)
- Larry Swedroe: Will factor tilts help your portfolio weather a recession? (ETF.com)
- What if I told you the Death Cross was more bullish for stocks than the Golden Cross? (Irrelevant Investor)
- ...and actually, a Death Cross is almost always a lagging signal, occurring after damage has already been done. (Dragonfly Capital)
- The yen-hedged Japanese equity trade is doing just fine, thank you very much. (ETF.com)
- Howard Gold looks at how stocks act ahead of and during the first rate hike. (MarketWatch)
- 2 & 20 is deader than disco. (Pragmatic Capitalism)
- These are the 12 worst financial advisors in America (ThinkAdvisor)
- Ben Carlson: My Experience with CDOs & The Real Estate Bubble (A Wealth of Common Sense)
- Robinhood, the free stock-trading app, raises $13 million to build out the company. (TechCrunch)
- The American Middle Class Hasn’t Gotten A Raise In 15 Years (FiveThirtyEight)
- 22 charts and maps to blow your mind (Vox)
- Walking Dead star Normal Reedus on finding success late, generally killing it. (GQ)
- "the training of laboratory rats to trade in foreign exchange and commodity futures markets, the rats 'outperformed some of the world’s leading human fund managers.'" (Enlightened Economist)
