Tuesday morning news drop
Nowhere to Hide It’s been a rough start for the year in the stock market. To find a worse performance through the end of April, you have to go all the way back to 1970. (Irrelevant Investor)
Is It Time to Start Buying Growth Stocks? There are going to be a handful of growth stocks that people are going to look back on in 5,10, maybe 15 years that look like fantastic buys at the moment. But there are also going to be those stocks that never reach their 2021 peaks again. Investing is always easier with the benefit of hindsight. These things are never that easy in the moment. (A Wealth of Common Sense)
Making Your Cash Work Harder as Interest Rates Rise It’s possible to squeeze a higher return from even your safest assets. Here’s how to do it. (Wall Street Journal)
Oil has long been used as a geopolitical weapon. Could electrified transport change that? Petroleum industry associated with wild price swings and armed conflict (CBC)
‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software you might not realize is watching you Computer monitoring software is helping companies spy on their employees to measure their productivity – often without their consent. (The Guardian)
The Netflix Nightmare: What Happens When an Industry Becomes a Squid Game Desperate for subscriber eyeballs, streamers are pulling back on edgy content—and acting more like the networks they trounced in the revolution. (Vanity Fair)
Content isn’t king: People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time – content and access to content was a strategic lever for technology. This isn’t really true anymore. Music and books don’t matter much to tech, and TV probably won’t matter much either. (Benedict Evans)
Running and the Science of Mental Toughness Experts are agreed the brain controls physical exercise – but they are arguing about how it persuades us to stop before we reach the point of complete exhaustion. (The Wire)
Maple Leafs face huge expectations as the puck drops on their best chance at the Stanley Cup in decades As the playoffs begin on Monday there is no team in the National Hockey League with more enormous expectations than the Maple Leafs. There is also nobody with more pressure. Nobody with more to prove. (Globe and Mail)