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How accurate are sell-side analysts?

How accurate are sell-side analysts?

In the long run, not very.

By: Colby Smith

Meet Morgan Stanley's chief cartoonist

Meet Morgan Stanley's chief cartoonist

Andrew Sheets' cartoons form a vivid, illustrated history of finance and markets since the mid-noughties.

By: Robin Wigglesworth

Wot is colour

  1. The quality of chart needed to raise $2m in an ICO
  2. The fall and rise of nations
  3. Why chartcrime has destroyed the blockchain
  4. Happy birthday bitcoin. Your gift: a log chart in The Times
  5. Chart crime as a measure of crypto-desperation
  6. Creative destruction concerns
  7. Wage brain
  8. Et tu, Beto?
  9. Charts and misdemeanours
  10. Deutsche Bank and the thin blue line
  11. The crypto periodic table (sigh)
  12. US debt is going to crush us all (and gold is the answer)
  13. Wot is gravity
  14. Pie in the sky
  15. Some help please
Wot is colour

Aesthetics are overrated, say Citibank

By: Jamie Powell

IQE: lumpy 'Apple' sauce at the pricey Cardiff chip shop

  1. Missing: $500bn of American savings
  2. Blockchain for Brexit: a wonderfully terrible idea
  3. The Bank of Hodlers [sic] (sigh)
  4. Behind the curtain at China Ding Yi Feng
  5. An answer to Mark Cuban's question
  6. Crumbs! It's CRYPTO: the movie!
  7. National Beverage Corp loses its fizz, and its mind
  8. Amazon won't spin-off Amazon Web Services
  9. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  10. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  11. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  12. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  13. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  14. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  15. The bitcoin price is wrong
  16. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  17. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  18. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  19. Don't write off the public sector
  20. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
IQE: lumpy 'Apple' sauce at the pricey Cardiff chip shop

The iPhone halo versus falling margins, lumpy sales, and endless capex.

By: Dan McCrum

Equities forever, says Elm Partners

Equities forever, says Elm Partners

A 5.3 per cent inflation adjusted return, from here to the horizon...

By: Dan McCrum

MiFID II: not all doom and gloom

  1. Missing: $500bn of American savings
  2. Blockchain for Brexit: a wonderfully terrible idea
  3. The Bank of Hodlers [sic] (sigh)
  4. Behind the curtain at China Ding Yi Feng
  5. An answer to Mark Cuban's question
  6. Crumbs! It's CRYPTO: the movie!
  7. National Beverage Corp loses its fizz, and its mind
  8. Amazon won't spin-off Amazon Web Services
  9. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  10. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  11. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  12. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  13. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  14. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  15. The bitcoin price is wrong
  16. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  17. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  18. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  19. Don't write off the public sector
  20. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
MiFID II: not all doom and gloom

Some effects may have been exaggerated, but that's not the whole story.

By: Jamie Powell

“Great quarter guys!”

  1. Tesla and Panasonic hold fire on the Gigafactory
  2. Tesla's dire deliveries
  3. Elon Musk reveals his favourite cryptocurrency
  4. Why Tesla is such a great place to work [Update]
  5. Tesla's parallel universes
  6. Tesla's number one retail investor begins to doubt himself
  7. Tesla's war against whistleblower Martin Tripp
  8. The Tesla semi-truck is ready to reserve [UPDATED]
  9. Tesla: “Surprise! You may not be fired"
  10. German watchdog slaps down Tesla's pricing practices
  11. How much does Tesla have in the bank?
  12. Tesla: 'Surprise! You're fired!'
  13. Meanwhile, just past midnight on the West Coast...
  14. Stuff Elon says, SEC compliance edition
  15. Tesla's profitability: how every little helped [Update]
  16. Stuff Elon says, (inevitable) bitcoin edition
  17. If it has to be said out loud...(Tesla edition, part deux)
  18. Finally, a Tesla Model 3 for $35,000*
  19. Stuff Elon says
  20. All the better to share you with
"Great quarter guys!"

A history of infamous earnings calls

By: Jamie Powell

Someone is wrong on the internet, a KPMG excuse debunked

Someone is wrong on the internet, a KPMG excuse debunked

What was claimed as reassurance was in fact a warning sign

By: Dan McCrum

Bank analyst very proud of his cryptocurrency mining rig

  1. A failed ICO is trying to flog itself on eBay
  2. Crypto-shills
  3. Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition
  4. The ICO whose team members are literally cartoon characters
  5. The London School of Cryptonomics
  6. Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch
  7. Buy SEC tokens! Now!
  8. Crypto “hedge fund” update
  9. The CryptoMillionsLotto
  10. We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK
  11. About that Petro
  12. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  13. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
  14. Crypto market put on notice — yet again
  15. ICO regulator anger translator
  16. Kodak makes last desperate bid for relevance with cryptocurrency
  17. Crypto cards just suffered a major setback
  18. Crypto startup wants to revive the non-dollar petrocurrency idea
  19. Crypto bust alert [siren]
  20. What ICO valuations tell us about the state of modern monopolies
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Laughing in the face of Mifid II.

By: Alexandra Scaggs

Markets Live

Monday, 18th September, 2017

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Paul Murphy

Surprise! People weren’t analysing biotech penny stocks just for kicks — updated

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Say it with me: People. Aren’t. Going. To. Produce. Good. Content. For. Free.

By: Alexandra Scaggs

How sell-side helps “early informed investors profitably exploit information acquisition efforts” [UPDATED]

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Answering a simple question: who gets information first, sell-side or buy-side?

By: David Keohane

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