Catching Up: iPhone Frenzy, Chipotle, Bank Capital, etc.
Catching up and emptying my burgeoning browser tabs:
- China's new love: black market iPhones (Wired)
- iPhone crushing all comers on the WSJ gift list survey (WSJ)
- Energy Select SPDR has year-to-date almost doubled (25% to 14%) the next best performing sectoral SPDR (SectorSPDR)
- European bank regulators have stopped trusting tier-one capital ratios (Economist)
- Chipotle may be doing well, guerilla marketing and all, but their burritos are heinous (WSJ)
- Goldman trying to raise $6-billion for new all-singing, all-dancing straight-outta 2003 hedge fund (FT)
- Next year liquidity may arrive in U.S. markets via the Middle East, which will cause immense political problems (FT)
- Health & fitness industry is looking wobbly and wangling for government support (FT)
- Another day, another E-Trade takeover rumor (Bloomberg)
- European long-only quants hammered in November (Bloomberg)
- Lunch with Craig Venter (FT)
