Be in the know. 20 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Groundhog Day 2021: Punxsutawney Phil predicts winter will hang on (New York Post)
  2. Reddit Trades Crumble as GameStop, AMC and Silver Plunge (Bloomberg)
  3. Silver prices plunge after hitting eight-year high (Yahoo! Finance)
  4. Pfizer Just Reported Earnings. Here’s the One Number to Notice. (Barron’s)
  5. Exxon Creates New Low-Carbon Business (Barron’s)
  6. UPS’s Earnings Came in Strong. The Stock Is Rising. (Barron’s)
  7. U.S. Economy Is Expected to Reach Pre-Pandemic Peak by Mid-2021 (Wall Street Journal)
  8. Energy company Baker Hughes is ‘cautiously optimistic’ on the outlook for demand (CNBC)
  9. India’s budget could help lift economic growth above 8% in a couple years, top economic advisor says (CNBC)
  10. ‘Expect results well above consensus’: Here’s what 4 Wall Street banks expect from Amazon’s 4th-quarter earnings report (Business Insider)
  11. Exxon-Chevron Tie-Up Not as Crazy as It Sounds (WallStreetJournal)
  12. GameStop Day Traders Are Moving Into SPACs (Wall Street Journal)
  13. Why the WallStreetBets crowd isn’t scaring JPMorgan or Goldman away from stocks (MarketWatch)
  14. Opinion: Short-sellers were pulling back even before Reddit’s GameStop squeeze (MarketWatch)
  15. Here’s what’s in the $600 billion relief plan from 10 Republican senators (MarketWatch)
  16. Wintry Weather Lifts Natural-Gas Prices (Wall Street Journal)
  17. Tracking Joe Biden’s Cabinet Nominees (Bloomberg)
  18. Biden’s Stimulus Hopes May Depend on ‘Reconciliation’ (Bloomberg)
  19. Dallas Fed President Kaplan stresses need for more spending to keep economic recovery going (CNBC)
  20. WTI Crude Hits $55, A One-Year High After Mixed OPEC Data (ZeroHedge)