Good morning. Cool chart showing the investment flows around the world. (via @went1995)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/02/18/the-fragile-five-will-not-create-a-new-global-economic-crisis/

Well… Being Dutch, I am not going to point out the obvious, but eh… who stands out in this crowd…? ECB report on debt

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1639.pdf

For all them commodity traders out there!

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/2/20/natural-gas-backwardation-at-extreme-levels.html

I would have preferred to see the absolute change (I guess China would be the biggest gainer), but this is nice as well: which countries have been accumulating gold?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-20/things-make-you-go-hmmm-anti-gold-idiots

Guess who’s the second biggest producer of coffee…?


http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/02/where-the-worlds-coffee-comes-from/

Yesterday’s news: producer confidence in Europe

http://www.businessinsider.com/eurozone-flash-pmi-2014-2

So that no one can claim that I did not inform you lot…

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21596969-rhode-island-scales-back-its-pension-reforms-little-rhody-big-debts

Definitely interesting: what the IMF has to say about India right now…

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2014/cr1457.pdf

And the final Q4 numbers for US companies are in!

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/2/20/final-earnings-and-revenue-beat-rates-for-q4-2013.html

Interesting chart on bitcoin mismatch pricing… (paywall?)

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21596971-bitcoin-growing-too-fast-its-technology-keep-up-great-hiccup

Whatsup? Whatsapp!! (via @GoosR)

http://qz.com/179047/here-are-all-of-the-sp-500-companies-that-are-worth-less-than-whatsapp/

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