Be in the know. 25 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Dividends and Buybacks Look Poised for a 2021 Rebound (Barron’s)
  2. BioNTech believes its vaccine with Pfizer works on new strain (CNBC)
  3. BioNTech says it can produce new vaccine for Covid variant in 6 weeks (Financial Times)
  4. Travel stocks recover from hit after countries ban flights from UK (Yahoo! Finance U.K. )
  5. Meet the Preliminary Dogs of the Dow for 2021 (24/7 Wall Street)
  6. Financial stocks a ‘safe’ recovery play: Expert (Fox Business)
  7. U.S. Congress passes nearly $900 billion COVID-19 aid bill, awaits Trump approval (Reuters)
  8. Apple shares rise on report of 2024 car rollout plan (Reuters)
  9. Banks Need Spenders to Be Stimulated (Wall Street Journal)
  10. Wells Fargo set to be freed from AML consent order (American Banker)
  11. Banks Can Buy Back Stocks Again. Wall Street Is Cheering. (Barron’s)
  12. Bank Stocks Are Going to Be Higher Next Year, Expert Says (Barron’s)
  13. Better Returns With Less Risk? Goldman Has a Basket of Stocks for That. (Barron’s)
  14. COVID-19 stimulus bill will let businesses seek second PPP loan (New York Post)
  15. Sex-crazed ‘roaring ‘20s’ awaits post-pandemic: Yale prof (New York Post)
  16. U.S. Economy Gets a Bridge to the Spring (Wall Street Journal)
  17. Brussels urges EU states to reopen their borders with the UK (Financial Times)
  18. Sneak Peek At Guy Fieri’s ‘Restaurant Hustle’ Documentary (Benzinga)
  19. Alaska Air boosts Boeing 737 orders and options to 120, to ‘largely’ replace Airbus fleet (MarketWatch)
  20. Goldman Sachs, once reserved for the rich, is close to offering wealth management for the masses (CNBC)
  21. Larry Culp Locks Up $47 Million Payday by Winning Over GE’s Doubters (Bloomberg)
  22. Beer, Restaurants and Nascar Win Tax Breaks in Virus-Relief Bill (Bloomberg)
  23. Billionaire Reubens Bet Big on Manhattan’s Battered Real Estate (Bloomberg)
  24. Billionaire investor Sam Zell questions Tesla and Bitcoin, predicts workers will return to offices, and warns the US dollar could be replaced as the world’s reserve currency in a new interview. (Business Insider)
  25. Diamondback Buys West Texas Shale Driller QEP Resources (Wall Street Journal)