Be in the know. 25 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Norwegian Cruise Line’s (NCLH) Oceania Cruises Records Single Best Booking Day In Company’s History (StreetInsider)
  2. Exclusive: Boeing nears 737 MAX order from Southwest worth billions – sources (StreetInsider)
  3. OPEC raises forecast for 2021 world oil-demand growth (MarketWatch)
  4. Expect More Bank Mergers, Says Citizens Financial CEO (Barron’s)
  5. Apple Tilts to iPhone Playbook for Car as Automaker Talks Stall (Yahoo! Finance)
  6. Covid Became a Pandemic One Year Ago. Normalcy Is Coming Back. (Barron’s)
  7. REITs’ Reversal Shows You Can Win for Losing—at Least in the Short Term (Barron’s)
  8. 10-year Treasury yield ducks below 1.50% after ECB pledges to step up asset purchases (MarketWatch)
  9. Happy 90th birthday to Rupert Murdoch, savior of The Post (New York Post)
  10. Congress Clears $1.9 Trillion Aid Bill, Sending It to Biden (New York Times)
  11. NHL, ESPN announce 7-year agreement beginning next season (Fox Business)
  12. ‘Big Market Delusion’: Rob Arnott Attacks Tesla, Electric Vehicle Industry (Institutional Investor)
  13. Why Investors Will Keep Up a ‘Dash for Trash’ (Institutional Investor)
  14. ECB pledges to step up pace of stimulus to counter market sell-off (Financial Times)
  15. How hedge funds are fuelling the Spac boom (Financial Times)
  16. AMC. Photo courtesy: Camknows via Flickr
  17. AMC Says No Longer In ‘Survival’ Mode With Vaccine Rollout, Big Movie Releases On The Horizon (Benzinga)
  18. Photo by Daniel Romero on Unsplash
  19. Apple Cuts Orders For iPhone 12 Mini By 70% Owing To Lack Of Demand: Report (Benzinga)
  20. Eli Lilly Has More Positive Data on Its Covid-19 Antibody Therapy (Barron’s)
  21. Vir Biotechnology shares surge 50% after COVID-19 antibody drug (made with GlaxoSmithKline) shown to reduce risk of death (MarketWatch)
  22. The Treasury Market Could Soon Get More Love (Wall Street Journal)
  23. Jobless claims fall sharply to lowest level since November (MarketWatch)
  24. The post-pandemic economy will see a new class of growth stocks emerge, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee says (Business Insider)
  25. Biden says he will announce the ‘next phase’ of the U.S. Covid response Thursday (CNBC)