Financial News Roundup for the week of Feb. 11, 2018

What We've Been Reading - Week of Feb. 11

Markets & Economy:

• Chinese companies halt trading to shelter from stocks’ dive (WSJ)
• Most mini-IPOs fail the market test (Barron’s)
• The cryptocurrency craze is hindering the search for extraterrestrial life (BBC)

Asset/Wealth Management:

• What I learned from my quest for loose change (WSJ)
• An Uber driver’s investment tip confirmed Paul Britton’s doubts on XIV (Bloomberg)

Long(er) Reads:

• Wall Street trader, NFL players hit hard by mob-linked scheme (NY Daily News)
• Nominees for the 2018 World Press Photo contest (The Atlantic)

Alternatives:

• What big hedge fund fees pay for (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
• Buyout firms haven’t forgotten how to be hostile (Bloomberg)
• The new wizards of Wall Street (WSJ)

Media Industry and Journalism:

• The Idolatry of Journalism (National Review)
• Unilever warns Facebook and Google to clean up online “swamp” or it will pull advertising (USA Today)
• Here’s a Commentary That We Need Right Now (City Journal)
• Dow Jones nearing 3 million subscribers (TalkingBizNews)
• Amazon becomes PR genius, for good or ill (Bloomberg)​