Be in the know. 14 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Chinese Stocks on Track for Best Year Since 2017 as Rally Widens (bloomberg)
  2. China Unveils Initial $9 Billion in Consumer Subsidies for 2026 (bloomberg)
  3. Alibaba, Abu Dhabi Set to Invest in MiniMax’s $600 Million IPO (bloomberg)
  4. If U.S.-China AI Rivalry Were Football, the Score Would Be 24-18 (wsj)
  5. AI Stock Investors May Want to Heed China’s Latest Possible ‘DeepSeek’ Threat (barrons)
  6. AI Trade’s Next Leg Is All About Tech’s ‘Pick-and-Shovel’ Stocks (bloomberg)
  7. November Pending-Home Sales Had Fourth Consecutive Monthly Rise (wsj)
  8. Chipotle and Other Restaurant Stocks Had an Ugly 2025. How They Can Recover in 2026. (barrons)
  9. Warren Buffett gifts us 5 secrets for investing success, as he hands off Berkshire’s reins this week (marketwatch)
  10. Dogs of the Dow Had a Strong Year. Here Are the 10 Stocks for 2026. (barrons)
  11. Pentagon announces $8.6 billion Boeing contract for F-15 jets for Israel (reuters)
  12. ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Knocks Out Power to Thousands in Northern US (bloomberg)
  13. Europe Rallies, Hedge Funds Sell Anyway (zerohedge)
  14. Private equity firms sell assets to themselves at a record rate (ft)