Be in the know. 15 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Chesapeake Debt Deal Staves Off Bankruptcy (Yahoo! Finance)
  2. Chris Hogan: How to have the happiest Christmas ever (I dare you!) (Fox Business)
  3. Dollar General’s Earnings Show Retail Is Great as Long as You Sell at a Discount (Barron’s)
  4. Japan launches $122 billion stimulus to fight trade risks, post-Olympic slump (Business Insider)
  5. Steve Cohen Is in Talks to Buy the Mets. You Could Buy a Piece of Another Team. (Barron’s)
  6. Carl Icahn Says the HP-Xerox Merger Is a ‘No-Brainer’ (Barron’s)
  7. Oil rises as OPEC weighs deeper output cuts (Street Insider)
  8. Robert Shiller on the ‘Trump Narrative’ That’s Lifting Stocks, and Other Investor Enthusiasms (Barron’s)
  9. This Billionaire CEO’s Brilliant Idea Made Him Rich, Twice (Investor’s Business Daily)
  10. U.S. Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Drop to Lowest in Seven Months (Bloomberg)
  11. Soros CIO Puts Conservative Stamp on Fund Built With Bold Bets (Bloomberg)
  12. Math Whiz Trades Without Humans to Make $700 Million Fortune (Bloomberg)
  13. US Trade Deficit Shrinks To Smallest In 16 Months (ZeroHedge)
  14. How Steve Miller’s ‘Fly Like an Eagle’ Took Off (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Pound Hits Fresh High on Boris Johnson’s Election Prospects (Wall Street Journal)