If Netflix is to be believed (and, you know, it is a public company), there’s a LOT more Stranger Things and House of Cards on the way – NYTimes and WSJ and Bloomberg and MarketWatch
Turns out Nelson Peltz’s failed quest for a P&G board seat was crazy close. As in, hanging-chads-style=get-ready-for-weeks-of-recount close – WSJ
The Nordstrom family has yanked its plans to put its eponymous stores up for sale as the traditional retail sector continues to face major headwinds – NYTimes and WSJ
Finra has ordered Wells Fargo brokerage units to pay more than $3.4 million to customers in restitution for recommending “complex, volatility-linked exchange-traded products” that were “not suitable for most investors” – Law360 and AdvisorHub and WSJ
ICOs are no less controversial than they were when Jamie Dimon all but called cryptocurrencies a fraud and the SEC warned about their offerings, but there’s no arguing with the very real $2 billion they helped rake in in just the last 2 months alone – Bloomberg
Say the Boomers (oh so predictably): hey advertisers, FOCUS ON US! – NYTimes
Millennials, meanwhile, are busy piling up debt and, in the process, making Jack Ma’s Ant Financial (with its recent focus on consumer loans) a lending behemoth, asset-backed securities and all – Bloomberg
Andrew Ross Sorkin on the often-mythical valuation for those elusive start-up unicorns – NYTimes
There are game changers and then there’s Google’s very real foray into quantum computing. Which—if it works—honest to goodness could disrupt everything – WSJ
