Financial News Roundup for the Week of Oct. 29, 2107

What We've Been Reading - Week of Oct. 29

Markets & Economy:

• Why markets are rising everywhere? Investors keep buying the dip. (WSJ)
  
• PetroChina is the biggest stock collapse in history and there’s no end in sight (Bloomberg)
  
• Apple should shrink its finance arm before it goes bananas (The Economist)
  

Asset/Wealth Management:

• As new money rushes into ETFs, a price war breaks out among managers (CNBC.com)
  
• Employee stock funds loom large in close proxy battles (Reuters)
  
• Inside Blankfein’s Twitter game (FT)
  
• The secret to wooing investors, communication (Bloomberg View)
  
• The head of JPMorgan’s $2 trn funds business issues a stark warning to a large group of Wall Streeters (Business Insider)
  
• ETF heyday is no bonanza for Wall St. (WSJ)
  

Long(er) Reads:

• How Floyd Mayweather Helped Two Young Guys from Miami Get Rich (NYT)
  
• The family that built an empire of pain (New Yorker)
  
• How a fired prosecutor became the most powerful law enforcement official in Louisiana (Washington Post)
  

Alternatives:

• Buyout stocks plunge on tax plan (Bloomberg)
  
• Short seller Muddy Waters seeks to unmask Google Gmail fraudster (Reuters)
  
• Private equity firms oppose tax bill -- but things could be worse (WSJ)
  

Media Industry and Journalism:

• Please leave politics out of Halloween (New York Post)
  
• MarketWatch’s Guiding Principal (MarketWatch)
  
• The Economist’s 3 part series on the future of journalism (The Economist)
  
• CNN planning to introduce a digital paywall (WSJ)
  
• DNAInfo and Gothamist shut down after voting to unionize (NYT)