10 Monday PM Reads

October 1, 2012 5:00pm by Barry Ritholtz

My afternoon train reading:

• Will the Halloween Indicator work this year? Seasonal pattern’s track record following Elections (MarketWatch)
• Foreclosure Crisis Year Six (Credit Slips)
• High frequency traders’ claims refuted by studies (FT.com)
• Now We Wait (Tim Duy’s Fed Watch)
• Halah Touryalai: Wall Street’s Brutal Job Cuts Are About To Get Much Worse (Forbes)
• People Will Believe Statistics, But Won’t Truly Accept Them (Leigh Drogan)
• The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications (Ideas)
• The University of Oxford on the underperformance of the American health system from 1970 to 2010
• For the Absent-Minded, a Few Forget-Me-Nots (NYT)
• Hey, Apple: Mapping Takes More Work than You Think (MIT Technology Review) see also Apple Makes a Wrong Turn as Users Blast Map Switch (WSJ)

What are you reading?

Transport Stocks: No Third Rail for Economy

Source: WSJ

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