Category: What I’m Reading Today

Be in the know. 20 key reads for St. Patrick’s Day…

  1. Why UK value stocks may be the trade of the decade (Financial Times)
  2. This Is the ‘Biggest Risk of All’ for Investors, According to Howard Marks (institutionalinvestor)
  3. Nokia to Cut Up to 10,000 Jobs to Offset 5G Investment (Wall Street Journal)
  4. Value Stocks a Week Away From ‘Holy Grail’ Momentum Boost (Bloomberg)
  5. What to Expect From the Fed’s Key Meeting (Barron’s)
  6. Inflation Is a Bigger Risk to the Bull Market Than Covid-19, Fund Managers Say (Barron’s)
  7. Investors say regulatory relief for bank capital rules could ease pressure on bond market (MarketWatch)
  8. The ‘Reflation Trade’ Is Stumbling. Why It’s Not Over Yet. (Barron’s)
  9. Lennar Beat Earnings Estimates. What the Company Sees for the Year Ahead. (Barron’s)
  10. Solar Stocks Sink on Proposed California Rule Changes. Why Utilities in Other States May Wage Similar Battles. (Barron’s)
  11. Biden may propose $1 trillion in new taxes, says a former aide — and here’s how Congress will react (MarketWatch)
  12. Opinion: Here’s what most of the world gets wrong about St. Patrick’s Day (MarketWatch)
  13. Why the airline industry recovery has a lot of runway to go (Yahoo! Finance)
  14. Making sense of February’s retail flop: Morning Brief (Yahoo! Finance)
  15. Fed must walk a fine line as financial markets hang in the balance (CNBC)
  16. Extended Stay America Banks On Its No-Frills Approach (Wall Street Journal)
  17. Carbon Capture Is Key to Companies’ Net Zero Pledges (Wall Street Journal)
  18. Would Biden’s Tax Hike Really Spare the Middle Class? Nope (Bloomberg)
  19. Stumbling Hotel Industry Starts to Regain Footing After Its Worst Year (Wall Street Journal)
  20. Tidal Wave of ESG Funds Brings Profit to Wall Street (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 30 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Stocks Are Pricey. Here’s Where to Find Value Now. (Barron’s)
  2. Nokia Is Cutting Up to 10,000 Jobs to Boost 5G Investment (Barron’s)
  3. What to Focus on as Fed Rate Panel Meets (Barron’s)
  4. ‘Taper tantrum’ worries creeping in, but equity crash not imminent: BofA (Reuters)
  5. Opinion: Why the health-care sector — not gold — is the best inflation hedge (MarketWatch)
  6. ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry slams NFTs with a quote warning ‘crypto grifters’ are selling them as ‘magic beans’ (Business Insider)
  7. Fed aims for tricky balance between wounded economy, booming outlook as it unveils new forecasts (USA Today)
  8. COVID-19 is no longer the biggest tail risk: BofA fund manager survey (Yahoo! Finance)
  9. How the U.S. Got It (Mostly) Right in the Economy’s Rescue (New York Times)
  10. U.S. Retail Sales Declined in February as Weather Impeded Demand (Bloomberg)
  11. Sucking It Down. The Energy Report 03/16/2021 (Phil Flynn)
  12. Xi Jinping Warns Against Tech Excess in Sign Crackdown Will Widen (Bloomberg)
  13. Biden’s Planned Tax Hike to Hit People Earning Over $400,000 Hardest (Bloomberg)
  14. The World’s Three Biggest Coal Users Get Ready to Burn Even More (Bloomberg)
  15. Investing in bonds has ‘become stupid,’ Ray Dalio says. Here’s what he recommends instead (MarketWatch)
  16. Are Americans Ready To Travel? BofA Sees Biggest Airline Bookings Jump Since Pandemic Began (Benzinga)
  17. Goldman Sachs Sees a Faster than Expected Airline Recovery Suggests Buying ALK and/or UAL, Both PTs Raised (Street Insider)
  18. EU says Pfizer to deliver over 200 million vaccine doses in second quarter (Street Insider)
  19. Gilead (GILD), Merck (MRK) Announce Agreement to Jointly Develop and Commercialize Long-Acting, Investigational Treatment Combinations of Lenacapavir and Islatravir in HIV (Street Insider)
  20. Goldman Sachs Sees a Faster than Expected Airline Recovery Suggests Buying ALK and/or UAL, Both PTs Raised (Street Insider)
  21. Fed officials may talk technical rate move but delay acting for now (Street Insider)
  22. What Does The Olive Garden Reveal About Dining Sector Recovery? (Benzinga)
  23. AstraZeneca Trial Data May Not Be Impressive, Setting Up a Buying Opportunity (Barron’s)
  24. China’s Regulators Punished Tech Giants and Rattled Investors. What Could Come Next. (Barron’s)
  25. U.S. Banks Will Turn Last Year’s Fear Into This Year’s Profits (Wall Street Journal)
  26. Why Berkshire Hathaway Energy Is One of Warren Buffett’s 4 ‘Jewels’ (Barron’s)
  27. Berkshire Hathaway Proxy Shows Warren Buffett Is Old School When it Comes to Compensation, Board Makeup (Barron’s)
  28. Fed should ‘switch’ up its playbook and buy more Treasurys, fewer mortgage bonds, urge analysts (MarketWatch)
  29. Value stocks are making a comeback. Don’t get left behind, these analysts say (MarketWatch)
  30. Five things to watch from the Federal Reserve meeting (Financial Times)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Monday…

  1. U.S. Banks to Turn Last Year’s Cash Buildup Into Profits (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Biden Eyes First Major Tax Hike Since 1993 in Next Economic Plan (Bloomberg)
  3. With New Covid Relief On Its Way, the Focus Turns to Infrastructure (Barron’s)
  4. China Industrial Output, Retail Sales Surge In Pandemic Rebound (Barron’s)
  5. Here’s What Wall Street Will Focus on as the Fed Rate Panel Meets (Barron’s)
  6. Americans Are Flying Again. Here’s Who Benefits. (Barron’s)
  7. White House Weighs How to Pay for Long-Term Economic Program (Wall Street Journal)
  8. Why the Next Big-Tech Fights Are in State Capitals (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Why $4-a-Gallon Gas May Be Coming Your Way This Summer (New York Times)
  10. New York Manufacturing Expands Most Since 2018 as Prices Climb (Bloomberg)
  11. The Housing Boom That Never Ends Already Wiped Out All the Short-Sellers (Bloomberg)
  12. India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners, traders –source (Business Insider)
  13. The $166 billion of SPAC deals in the 1st quarter exceeds all of 2020 (Business Insider)
  14. Big questions loom ahead of Biden’s next spending push, like ‘what is infrastructure?’ (Reuters)
  15. Investor questions for the Fed: rebound, inflation and yields (Reuters)
  16. Why Costco may actually still win long after the pandemic ends (Yahoo! Finance)
  17. China Becomes First Major Economy to Start Withdrawing Pandemic Stimulus Efforts (Wall Street Journal)
  18. Taylor Swift Wins Album of the Year at the Grammys (Wall Street Journal)
  19. Not-So Supertankers Deserve a Look as Pandemic Fades (Wall Street Journal)
  20. Overlooked corner of stock market offers protection from bond-market volatility (Fox Business)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Factbox: Energy firms seize on carbon tech, environmental goals to build new businesses (Reuters)
  2. Well-Known Companies Highlight Stocks to Buy Under $10 With Huge Potential (24/7 Wall Street)
  3. Fed to Hike Rates in 2023 but Dots Won’t Show It, Economists Say (Bloomberg)
  4. Air Force Receives First F-15EX Capable Of Carrying Hypersonic Weapons (ZeroHedge)
  5. Goldman’s Clients Are Asking If There Are Any Cheap Stocks Left (ZeroHedge)
  6. March Quarterly Options Expiration Week Historically Bullish: DJIA, S&P 500 & NASDAQ Up 10 of Last 13 (Almanac Trader)
  7. Banksy’s Painting for Health Care Workers Will Be Sold to Benefit England’s National Health Service (architecturaldigest)
  8. This Ferrari Monza SP1 Is World’s Most Beautiful Car, According to Science (Maxim)
  9. jaguar is restoring 12 e-type sports cars for its 60th anniversary (designboom)
  10. Top Gear Season 30: How the World’s Most Famous Motoring Show Out-Drove a Pandemic (thedrive)
  11. Most Dictators Self Destruct. Why? (getpocket)
  12. The European Central Bank fumbles its way towards yield curve control (moneyweek)
  13. Avoiding Bad Decisions (Farnam Street)
  14. Spirit: From laughingstock to legit airline (USA Today)
  15. Short Sellers Boost Bets Against SPACs (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 50 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Big Pharma Battled the Pandemic. The Stocks Are Cheap. (Barron’s)
  2. These Aerospace Stocks Will Take Flight Soon. Flying Taxis? Not So Fast. (Barron’s)
  3. The pandemic made these cereals cool again (CNN Business)
  4. The value proposition for markets (Financial Times)
  5. Boeing Gets a Brand New 737 MAX Buyer, and the Stock Is Jumping (Barron’s)
  6. U.S. Surpasses 100 Million Covid-19 Vaccines Administered (Wall Street Journal)
  7. The tech-heavy Nasdaq has underperformed the Dow for four straight weeks — a first since 2016 (CNBC)
  8. Curious Speculations: Collectibles & NFTs (investoramnesia)
  9. As Covid Wanes, the U.S. Economy Could Soar. What That Means for Investors (Barron’s)
  10. Charlie Munger uses these mental tricks (cmqinvesting)
  11. Value Investors Finally Have Reason to Celebrate—for Now (Wall Street Journal)
  12. Fox’s Tubi Made Millions With Reruns. Now It Wants Original Programming (Bloomberg)
  13. Why You Should Be Wary of Claims That the Stock Market Is in a Bubble (Time)
  14. ‘Stimmy’ Is Setting Stage for Next Wave of Retail Stock Frenzy (Bloomberg)
  15. The Renaissance of Pipelines (contrarianedge)
  16. Novavax Stock Jumps on Final Data From U.K. Vaccine Trial (Barron’s)
  17. David Tepper says he’s getting bullish on stocks for a very specific reason (CNBC)
  18. Drive-Throughs That Predict Your Order? Restaurants Are Thinking Fast (New York Times)
  19. What Came Before the $10 Billion Bet on Flying Taxis (Wall Street Journal)
  20. Charlie Munger: How Berkshire got started and became a success (YouTube)
  21. 3D-printed housing developments suddenly take off – here’s what they look like (CNBC)
  22. Higher Rates Won’t Kill the Stock Market. What to Do Now. (Barron’s)
  23. The Tactics People Are Using to Get Their Money Out of China (Bloomberg)
  24. How Non-Fungible Tokens Are Transforming the Art World (Barron’s)
  25. The Booming IPO Market Shows No Signs of Slowing. What Investors Need to Know. (Barron’s)
  26. Eli Lilly Offers More Positive Data on Its Alzheimer’s Drug (Barron’s)
  27. 14 Undervalued Small-Cap Stocks (Morningstar)
  28. Here’s What Wall Street Will Focus on Next Week as Fed Rate Panel Meets (Barron’s)
  29. Bear Warning Seen With Nasdaq 100 Velocity Stalling at 2000 Peak (Bloomberg)
  30. How Israel Became the World Vaccine Leader (Wall Street Journal)
  31. It’s Not Just GameStop. Why These Retro Stocks Are Suddenly Hot. (Barron’s)
  32. How to Play the Valuation Gap Between Growth and Value Stocks (Barron’s)
  33. Covid-19 Rewrote the Rules of Shopping. What Is Next? (Wall Street Journal)
  34. Short Seller Takes Aim at Another EV Maker. Its Stock Is Tumbling. (Barron’s)
  35. China’s Corporate Earnings Set for Biggest Jump in a Decade (Bloomberg)
  36. Bridgewater’s Prince warns on risky assets after bond decline (Financial Times)
  37. China Aims to Vaccinate 70-80% of Population By Mid-2022 (Bloomberg)
  38. Americans with more education are optimistic about the economy. The rest aren’t. (Business Insider)
  39. Why the spiking bond yields driving sharp losses in tech stocks are not a long-term threat to the market, according to one Wall Street chief strategist (Business Insider)
  40. Tech’s Volatility Roller Coaster Is Back at Pandemic-Crash Level (Bloomberg)
  41. Factories Are Gearing Up for a Post-Covid Boom (Bloomberg)
  42. Billionaire and Celebrity Endorsements Lure Retail Investors to the SPAC Craze (Bloomberg)
  43. Everything Hot Is ‘Unwinding’ in $21 Billion of Clean-Power ETFs (Bloomberg)
  44. 50 Companies to Watch in 2021 (Bloomberg)
  45. Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) (Tim Ferriss)
  46. Investors Panic During Natural Disasters. Who Wins When They Do? (institutionalinvestor)
  47. Investors see ‘gold rush on steroids’ for green battery metals (Financial Times)
  48. For Wall Street, Everybody’s a Post-Covid Winner (Wall Street Journal)
  49. 17 Reasons to Let the Economic Optimism Begin (New York Times)
  50. $100 Billion Has Rotated Back To Value Investing, And More Could Be Coming (ZeroHedge)

Be in the know. 23 key reads for Friday…

  1. Homebuyers Are Heading to Florida During Covid, but Nearly as Many Are Moving Out (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Want a greener world? Don’t dump oil stocks (Financial Times)
  3. JPMorgan says stocks in these sectors will lead markets higher as economy recovers (CNBC)
  4. Oil Giants Prepare to Put Carbon Back in the Ground (New York Times)
  5. Biden Sees Normalcy Returning by Summer as Vaccinations Surge (Bloomberg)
  6. Shell Doubled Oil-Trading Profit to $2.6 Billion Last Year (Bloomberg)
  7. Stockpickers Can Breathe Again as FANGs Stumble (Bloomberg)
  8. Apollo Bets a New Roaring ’20s Will Revive Vegas After Vaccines (Bloomberg)
  9. Apollo Bids $11 Billion For a Different Headache (Bloomberg)
  10. Novavax vaccine 96% effective against original coronavirus, 86% vs British variant in UK trial (CNBC)
  11. China’s GDP growth target of over 6% is easy to reach – and that’s not a bad thing, analysts say (CNBC)
  12. Hyatt Hotels CEO sees ‘clear path to recovery’ after Covid rocked industry (CNBC)
  13. Bill Gates is worried about Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies for this reason (Fox Business)
  14. The Booming IPO Market Shows No Signs of Slowing (Barron’s)
  15. Things Are Good for Industrial Stocks. A Hidden Dividend Aristocrat Shows Why. (Barron’s)
  16. China’s Antitrust Regulators Fine Tencent, Baidu and 10 Others as Big Tech Crackdown Intensifies (Barron’s)
  17. Here’s how far the Nasdaq could fall if bond yields reach 2% (MarketWatch)
  18. 10 Ways to Play the Oil Rally (Barron’s)
  19. The rotation into cyclical stocks isn’t over, but investors should use volatility to ‘build positions’ in tech, UBS says (Business Insider)
  20. China Lays Plans to Tame Tech Giant Alibaba (Wall Street Journal)
  21. Israeli Strikes Target Iranian Oil Bound for Syria (Wall Street Journal)
  22. Beeple NFT Fetches Record-Breaking $69 Million in Christie’s Sale (Wall Street Journal)
  23. Cash-Out Refinancings Hit Highest Level Since Financial Crisis (Wall Street Journal)

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)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Market bull Jeremy Siegel warns the Nasdaq rebound will unravel, favors value stocks (CNBC)
  2. Electric Carmakers Burn Through Cash Like Gas in a Combustion Engine (Bloomberg)
  3. Chevron vows to slow carbon emissions, raise oil output (FoxBusiness)
  4. Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile All Host Investor Days This Week. Here’s What To Expect. (Barron’s)
  5. China’s Tapping the Brakes as U.S. Revs Up Stimulus. Here’s What That Means, According to Pimco. (Barron’s)
  6. Inside a Billionaire’s Plan to Influence New York’s Mayoral Race (New York Post)
  7. Eurozone banks are showing life after 15 rough years. Will the ECB snuff out the rally? (MarketWatch)
  8. ‘There is a cost to doing nothing,’ strategist warns of aging U.S. infrastructure (MarketWatch)
  9. GE Stock Is Hot. That’s Why the Company’s Annual Outlook Call Is a Big Deal. (Barron’s)
  10. Wall Street A-Listers Fled to Florida. Many Now Eye a Return (Bloomberg)
  11. Roblox goes public Wednesday — here’s how indie game makers turned it into a $30 billion company (CNBC)
  12. Gundlach: “People Are Starting To Believe That Stimulus Is Permanent” (ZeroHedge)
  13. Boeing delivers 22 jets in February, net order turn positive for first time in 14 months (Street Insider)
  14. Campbell Soup (CPB) Reports In-Line Q2 EPS, Offers Guidance (Street Insider)
  15. Strategists bump up U.S. profit targets after fourth quarter blows past expectations (Reuters)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Merck’s Covid-19 Antiviral Shows Early Promise (Barron’s)
  2. How Wall Street’s 24 Best-Loved Stocks Can Help Tell What’s Ahead (Barron’s)
  3. Theater Chains Were at Hollywood’s Mercy During Pandemic. That May Be Changing. (Barron’s)
  4. Why One Coca-Cola Skeptic Is Now a Believer Again (Barron’s)
  5. Another Costco Bull Defends the Stock Post-Earnings (Barron’s)
  6. Why David Tepper says ‘it’s very difficult to be bearish’ on the stock market (MarketWatch)
  7. Airbnb, Lyft and Other Stocks Set to Benefit From a Consumer Spending Boom (Barron’s)
  8. Vaccinated Americans, Let the Unmasked Gatherings Begin (but Start Small) (New York Times)
  9. Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Shot Neutralizes Brazilian Strain in Lab (Bloomberg)
  10. China’s $1 Trillion Stock Rout Tests Limit of State Intervention (Bloomberg)
  11. Rise of the retail army: the amateur traders transforming markets (Financial Times)
  12. Private Equity’s Time May Have Come for Bank Deals (Wall Street Journal)
  13. This Isn’t Inflation’s TIP-ping Point (Wall Street Journal)
  14. House Progressives Back Revised Covid-19 Aid Bill as Vote Nears (Wall Street Journal)
  15. The Energy Report 03/09/2021 (Phil Flynn)
  16. Walgreens has administered 5 million COVID-19 vaccine shots (MarketWatch)
  17. Shell Strikes $926 Million Deal to Sell Oil Assets in Egyptian Desert (Yahoo! Finance)
  18. OPEC’s sneaky oil move may leave energy markets thirsty (Fox Business)
  19. Cliff Asness Has Once Again Come to Value’s Defense (Institutional Investor)
  20. AMC Sees Price Target Doubled At Wedbush Amid Meme Stock Renaissance (Benzinga)

Be in the know. 17 key reads for Monday…

  1. Covid-19 Pill Shows Promise in Preliminary Testing (Wall Street Journal)
  2. In Just Hours, Kuroda Kills Weeks of Selling in Japanese Bonds (Bloomberg)
  3. “Balls To The Wall” 2.0 – David Tepper Turns Bullish On Stocks, Sees Bonds Stabilizing (ZeroHedge)
  4. Financial Stocks Have Crushed Tech. The Trade Is Still Alive (Barron’s)
  5. BOJ’s Kuroda brushes aside chance of widening yield band at March review (Yahoo! Finance)
  6. Buyback authorizations total $126 billion YTD, 50% greater than the same time last year and the largest total at this point during the year on record (Yahoo! Finance)
  7. David Tepper is getting bullish on stocks, believes rising rates are set to stabilize (CNBC)
  8. Key Saudi Arabian Oil Site Attacked, Stoking Regional Tensions (Bloomberg)
  9. Investors Rotate to Reflation Trades After U.S. Senate Passes Stimulus Plan (Barron’s)
  10. Vertex Stock Fell After a Setback on a New Drug. It’s an Opportunity for Investors. (Barron’s)
  11. GE Nears Deal to Combine Aircraft-Leasing Unit With AerCap (Wall Street Journal)
  12. Analysis: Iran slips record volume of oil into China, reaches out to Asian clients for trade resumption (Reuters)
  13. Goldman Economists See 4.1% Unemployment in U.S. by End of Year (Bloomberg)
  14. Value’s Long-Awaited Dawn May Finally Be Here (Bloomberg)
  15. Young people looking to spend almost half of their stimulus check on stocks: Survey (CNBC)
  16. 7 reasons why investors should buy the stock market’s recent dip, even as bond yields surge, according to Fundstrat’s Tom Lee (Business Insider)
  17. Corporate America bounces back from the pandemic (Financial Times)