Be in the know. 19 key reads for Friday…

  1. GXO Announces Completion of UK Regulatory Review of Wincanton Acquisition and Raises Full-year 2025 Guidance (gxo)
  2. GXO Announces Patrick Kelleher as Chief Executive Officer (gxo)
  3. Home Depot and billionaire Brad Jacobs’s QXO go head-to-head in possible hostile bid for GMS (cnbc)
  4. Fed Governor Waller says central bank could cut rates as early as July (cnbc)
  5. Bessent’s Top Bank Reform Is Good for Markets (bloomberg)
  6. The Regulatory Tides Bolstering Stablecoins (morningstar)
  7. Trump SEC chair scraps proposed market rules as he charts new path (ft)
  8. Is China going through a consumption revival? Its 618 festival is one sign of it (cnbc)
  9. China’s Midyear Shopping Festival Pulls In Record Online Sales (wsj)
  10. Hong Kong home market on brink of turnaround, Morgan Stanley says (scmp)
  11. Hong Kong stocks gain as PBOC’s benchmark-rate choice spurs optimism on economy (scmp)
  12. Unitree Robotics reaches unicorn status with ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent funding (scmp)
  13. Goldman and Citi See Europe’s Economy Powering Stock Rally (bloomberg)
  14. Vietnam, US hold negotiations on new trade deal, ministry says (reuters)
  15. Hybrid Cars, Once Derided and Dismissed, Have Become Popular (nytimes)
  16. The Dividend Stocks Outpacing the Market in 2025 (morningstar)
  17. America’s Big, Beautiful Land Sale (wsj)
  18. Chevron and Exxon Are Really AI Plays. We Explain. (barrons)
  19. Lower Gas Prices to Spur Record July Fourth Road Trips, AAA Says (bloomberg)