What I'm reading this morning:
- Stifel is buying AL-based broker Sterne Agee for a buck fifty. (Fortune)
- Huge announcement between First Solar and SunPower (Barron's Tech Trader)
- I have a quote in this USA Today piece about Obama vs the brokerage model (USA Today)
- "I have to admit something – I’ve become thoroughly bored with all the coverage of Greece " - yeah, me too, Cullen (Pragmatic Capitalism)
- "Since last summer, the Shanghai Composite Index has trounced world markets and risen over 60 percent. What gives?" (Market Anthropology)
- Goldman: Shake Shack is too pricey to invest in here (Business Insider)
- Struggling stock pickers blame the Fed, Part 94 (Bloomberg)
- Earnings season, ex-Apple, was not as good as you thought (Advisor Perspective)
- The biggest hurdles facing Twitter as it attempts to monetize and grow (TechCrunch)
- Observations From a Decade in the Investment Business (A Wealth of Common Sense)
- Why don't we make good investment decisions? (Irrelevant Investor)
- Financial bloggers are bullish. Does it matter? (editors note: not if they don't actually manage any money) (Fat Pitch)
