Good morning. You sometimes hear about US companies buying back huge quantities of stocks, this is the reverse: equity offerings per year???

(source: http://soberlook.com/2012/11/total-equity-offerings-in-us-hit-all.html)

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Nice chart showing the state of the advanced economies???

?????????????????? http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/world-production-stagnates/

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Small recap on the reporting season in the US: earnings on balance manage to surprise???

?????????????????? http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2012/11/16/earnings-beat-rate-tops-60.html

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???but with revenues results on disappoint somewhat

?????????????????? http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2012/11/16/revenue-beat-rate-ends-at-482-1.html

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The latest trend in town: declaring apple dead. Why didn???t anyone say this when Apple was 25% higher???.

?????????????????? http://www.businessinsider.com/mobile-market-share-2012-11

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Talking of trends: Barron???s looks into the latest trends amongst money managers: ???Hating Tech (and small caps), loving junk (and REITs)

?????????????????? http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052748704526104578114994086268304.html

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Even more trends: who would have thought that financials (in the US) would be the best performing sector this year?

?????????????????? http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/u-s-equity-sector-etf-performance-2/

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???50 Unfortunate Truths About Investing??? Always good to keep in mind???

?????????????????? http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/11/14/50-unfortunate-truths-about-investing.aspx

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The schedules for the week to come!

?????????????????? http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/11/schedule-for-week-of-nov-18th.html

?????????????????? http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/11/18/week-ahead-november-19-23/

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And this one takes an even longer look into the future???

?????????????????? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-18/key-global-event-risks-next-five-years

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