One of my favorite financial media takedowns comes from Josh Brown. It’s entitled ‘Why Did The Stock Market Selloff Today.
I decided to tackle the same post with their roundup headlines of ‘Why The Stock Markets Rallied Today’. Sadly, most of the headlines are the same, but a few do actually bother to change them:
Wall Street Journal: Tensions in Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula ‘ease’
Yahoo Finance: Putin Backing Down
Fox Business: Reagan
CNBC: Infomercial
Forbes: Taxes are Too High
Huffington Post: Taxes are too low
Fox News: Gay marriage still illegal in Alaska
Motley Fool: Sign up here to find out!
Bloomberg TV: The opposite of whatever CNBC said.
Bloomberg: (pay $24,000 to see why)
Quartz: Chinese shadow-banks lower than we wrote about yesterday
FT Alphaville: Chinese derivatives measured in Rubles
Washington Times: Fallout from explosive Benghazi revelations subside
StockTwits: Here’s a chart
USA Today: Let’s take a poll
DealBook: M&A chatter picks up
Zero Hedge: The market was NOT up.
MSNBC: I’m not sure I’m comfortable with the term “stock market” per se…
Business Insider: Ten reasons, actually (view as single page?)
Financial Times: Please take a moment to register and accept cookies
MarketWatch: 1929 reflex bounce
The Reformed Broker: More buyers than sellers
Buzzfeed Business: It’s like that time on Party of Five when Charlie was giving Julia the silent treatment…
Reuters: HFT
Barron’s: Valuations playing catch up
Investors Business Daily: Increase in momentum. And talks of deficit reduction.
History Channel: Ancient Aliens
brilliant !
Awesome post from Josh – love the Bloomberg line….