Be in the know. 10 key reads for Friday…

  1. Intel Stock May Have Hit Rock Bottom. How to Position for a Rally. (Barron’s)
  2. Japan’s Stock-Playing Central Bank Racks Up $56 Billion Gain (Wall Street Journal)
  3. BlackRock’s Hildebrand Says Global Inflation Isn’t Dead (Bloomberg)
  4. Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway isn’t alone in struggling to make a big acquisition. Past partner 3G Capital is also coming up short (Business Insider)
  5. Crude Inventory Data Shows Draw of 754 Thousand Barrels Last Week (Street Insider)
  6. OPEC+ panel to hold informal online talks on Saturday (Reuters)
  7. Covid Vaccines Look Promising. How Emerging Markets Could Benefit. (Barron’s)
  8. Social Media’s Liability Shield Is Under Assault (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Covid Won’t Steal Christmas (Wall Street Journal)
  10. Factbox: The top contenders to run Biden’s financial agencies (Reuters)