Tweets of the Week 6.1.14

June 1, 2014 3:00pm by Barry Ritholtz

Markets & Stocks

That’s a lot of spare coin

Apple has $150.6 billion cash; it could buy: BEATS Netflix Tesla Twitter Dropbox Pandora Uber Pinterest Spotify Airbnb and have $31B left.

— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) May 28, 2014

I ain’t afraid of no posts

The "Fear Index" isn't showing much fear these days. But could it also be a signal to higher returns ahead? http://t.co/GdQkiCuCmH

— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) May 28, 2014

Whew!

70% of S&P 500 stocks now above 50-days: pic.twitter.com/8xG0xPq8VJ

— Bespoke (@bespokeinvest) May 27, 2014

Cash Return to Shareholders

An interesting history of shareholder yield since 1987 for all U.S. stocks pic.twitter.com/mAMgSFrNIn

— Patrick OShaughnessy (@millennial_inv) May 30, 2014

Economy

But but but that doesn’t fit into my narrative!

The drop in consumer spending was caused by just one thing: Lower heating bills. http://t.co/gznhWQ0Os3 pic.twitter.com/NZMocmwMMh

— Rex Nutting (@RexNutting) May 30, 2014

Gasoline prices trending lower?

Decades-long trends in energy reversing; gas consumption down 5.5% since 07; renewable use up http://t.co/O8X3eToLaZ pic.twitter.com/q8GDnM44u1

— Jason Furman (@CEAChair) May 29, 2014

How many?

.@LWinthorpe In 222 years US has had 47 recessions (and survived!). That's it, no more? BTW Yo-yo years is real https://t.co/Pvoan3l6LM

— Lakshman Achuthan (@businesscycle) May 30, 2014

Here comes the home equity loans (again)

Mortgage lending is weak but with prices rising, banks are pushing home equity loans again http://t.co/qA8L7Dkin1 pic.twitter.com/8zdoPAFshk

— Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) May 30, 2014

Go figure, economists got a forecast wildly wrong

The end of the year Bloomberg consensus average on the 10 year bond was 3.25% …. 72 economists.

— Daryl Jones (@HedgeyeDJ) May 29, 2014

Americans Deleveraging

@DanielAlpert @DanBTIG @ritholtz Here's your debt series divided by GNP since 2008. Deleveraging. pic.twitter.com/97nOmdWVmp

— Mark Dow (@mark_dow) May 28, 2014

Random Items

Beat it

My only comment on Fruit/Beets. pic.twitter.com/niwSauYz8Q #LOPEZ

— Jacob Wolinsky (@JacobWolinsky) May 29, 2014

Does this planet make me look fat?

30 percent of world is now fat, no country immune http://t.co/vUtITT3k4v

— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) May 29, 2014

A full life

That is one hell of a full life. RIP @DrMayaAngelou pic.twitter.com/UuliJzhlXl

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) May 28, 2014

Which is more deadly?

Which has killed more Americans – war or tobacco? Shocking, but now you know. pic.twitter.com/L4eYVc4Mg3

— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) May 26, 2014

I’d like to buy a clue…

Where does @PatSajak get all of his hilarious material? Pat Sajak’s Wheel of Asshole Tweets! http://t.co/D1BnYoztyo pic.twitter.com/H2FlbwPU8m

— Funny Or Die (@funnyordie) May 24, 2014

Worst. Wedding. Announcement. Ever.

.@NYPost gives Kim Kardashian and Kanye West the world's worst wedding announcement: http://t.co/Ws49sA1IWT pic.twitter.com/so633BiQv0

— Mashable (@mashable) May 26, 2014

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