Be in the know. 18 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Hormel Foods Announces Definitive Agreement to Sell its Whole-Bird Turkey Business to Life-Science Innovations (hormel)
  2. Hormel Foods Announces Preliminary First Quarter 2026 Results and Reaffirms Full-Year Adjusted Guidance (hormel)
  3. Cooper Standard Announces Proposed Private Offering of $1.1 Billion of Senior Secured First Lien Notes (cooperstandard)
  4. Forget AI—Tax Refunds Could Give Retail Stocks a Lift (barrons)
  5. Average Tax Refunds Up More than $200 as Filing Season Opens (bloomberg)
  6. A Bullish Letter from Corporate America (zerohedge)
  7. Fed’s Goolsbee sees potential for several rate cuts in 2026 (streetinsider)
  8. Mortgage rates sink to the lowest level in a month, sparking more refinance demand (cnbc)
  9. Treasury Yields Fall to 2026 Lows as Investors Flock to Bonds (barrons)
  10. US investment grade credit markets care about the tech wreck, just not very much (ft)
  11. Stocks Are Doing Something Rare. That Spells Opportunity. (barrons)
  12. Why Investors Shouldn’t Ignore Global Small-Cap Stocks (morningstar)
  13. Ford Looks to Hit $30,000 EV Price Target by Shrinking Battery (bloomberg)
  14. US and Japan unveil first mega-projects under $550bn deal (ft)
  15. US FTC finalizes consent order in Boeing acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems (reuters)
  16. Resilient U.S. Oil Production Is a Boon to Trump. How Long Will It Last? (wsj)
  17. RBC Capital raises Advance Auto Parts stock price target on margin progress (investing)
  18. USA vs. Canada: The Rock ’Em, Sock ’Em Olympic Hockey Final You Cannot Skip (wsj)