
What I'm reading this morning:
- December Non Farm Payrolls: 252k jobs added, unemployment rate now 5.6% (MoneyBeat)
- Another wild animal takes hostages in Paris, this time there are children involved. Yes, this is probably what your god wants you to do. (BBC)
- Euro QE is looking 500 billion-ish (Bloomberg)
- Joseph Stiglitz on "Europe's Lapse of Reason" (Project Syndicate)
- Nelson Peltz launches his proxy fight against DuPont (Wall Street Journal)
- Is there any upside left in long-term treasury bonds from here? (A Wealth Of Common Sense)
- Money is just flying out of commodity ETFs. (ETF Trends)
- related: GLD has just fallen out of the top ten largest ETFs (ETF.com)
- Mark Hulbert: It's become harder to beat the stock market (MarketWatch)
- "Like an expert fisherman facing an empty lake, hedge fund managers found historically low rewards for their abilities (if any) to outperform indices." (CIO)
- How OPEC Weaponized the Price of Oil Against U.S. Drillers (Bloomberg)
- Why are all the star economists from the left wing these days? (Bloomberg View)
- New to investing? Check out Liftoff! (Liftoff)