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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. Happy birthday bitcoin. Your gift: a log chart in The Times
  2. Chart crime as a measure of crypto-desperation
  3. Creative destruction concerns
  4. Wage brain
  5. Et tu, Beto?
  6. Charts and misdemeanours
  7. Deutsche Bank and the thin blue line
  8. The crypto periodic table (sigh)
  9. US debt is going to crush us all (and gold is the answer)
  10. Wot is gravity
  11. Pie in the sky
  12. 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. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  2. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  3. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  4. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  5. The bitcoin price is wrong
  6. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  7. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  8. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  9. Don't write off the public sector
  10. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  11. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  12. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  13. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  14. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  15. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  16. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  17. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  18. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  19. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  20. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
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. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  2. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  3. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  4. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  5. The bitcoin price is wrong
  6. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  7. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  8. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  9. Don't write off the public sector
  10. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  11. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  12. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  13. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  14. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  15. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  16. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  17. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  18. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  19. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  20. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
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. Finally, a Tesla Model 3 for $35,000*
  2. Stuff Elon says
  3. All the better to share you with
  4. A message from the dear leader to the stakhanovites
  5. Tesla's Q3, the mea culpa
  6. Missing: Tesla's full self-driving option
  7. Tesla's full self driving: compare and contrast
  8. Meanwhile, at 1.22am on the West Coast....
  9. The SEC vs Elon Musk [Updated]
  10. Tesla needs cash, says Morgan Stanley
  11. Calling all suburban Bond villains
  12. If it has to be said out loud... (Tesla edition)
  13. Tesla: ladies, liquor and leverage
  14. Taking Tesla private
  15. Change of control: How would Tesla's creditors fare in a LoLBO?
  16. Tesla going private? We have questions...
  17. Tesla: a strange case of credits [Update]
  18. Je suis Montana Skeptic, part deux
  19. Je suis Montana Skeptic [Update]
  20. Just how many dimensions of chess is Elon Musk playing?
"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. Crypto-shills
  2. Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition
  3. The ICO whose team members are literally cartoon characters
  4. The London School of Cryptonomics
  5. Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch
  6. Buy SEC tokens! Now!
  7. Crypto “hedge fund” update
  8. The CryptoMillionsLotto
  9. We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK
  10. About that Petro
  11. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  12. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
  13. Crypto market put on notice — yet again
  14. ICO regulator anger translator
  15. Kodak makes last desperate bid for relevance with cryptocurrency
  16. Crypto cards just suffered a major setback
  17. Crypto startup wants to revive the non-dollar petrocurrency idea
  18. Crypto bust alert [siren]
  19. What ICO valuations tell us about the state of modern monopolies
  20. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Cryptocurrencies
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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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