10 New Year’s Eve Day Reads

December 31, 2014 8:00am by Barry Ritholtz

My nasty headcold is starting to break, just in time for celebrations this evening. Oh, and our morning reads:

• Here’s The Brilliant Trading Advice 50-Year NYSE Veteran Art Cashin Has For Investors (Business Insider)
• Zweig: Lessons From a Year of Market Surprises (WSJ)
• S&P 500 will finish 2014 without ever having four consecutive down days. That’s never happened before (Moneybeat)
• Our 33 Weirdest Charts From 2014 (fivethirtyeight)
• 2014 in Review: Best of the Silver Bullet Awards (Dash of Insight) see also The 2014 Financial Market Awards (Wealth of Common Sense)
• The 10 most expensive cars auctioned in 2014 totalled $141m (Classic Driver)
• Legal Weed’s Strange Economics in Colorado (Bloomberg) see also Vermont Governor confronts deadly heroin crisis as public health problem (PBS)
• We need more sleep (The Boston Globe)
• The Top 5 Neuroscience Breakthroughs of 2014 (The Connectome)
• Anchorage, Alaska never saw a day below zero in 2014 (Washington Post)

Where are you celebrating tonight?

More Than Half of Smartphones Activated on Christmas Were iPhones

Source: Re/Code

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