- These 8 Value Stocks Will Benefit From an Economic Recovery (Barron’s)
- Flying Cars, of a Sort, Are Coming. There Are Two Stocks for That. (Barron’s)
- US Strikes Iran-backed Militias In Syria In Biden First (Barron’s)
- So long, there-is-no-alternative trade. What should investors do now? (MarketWatch)
- Pfizer vaccine can reduce transmission after 1 dose, new study finds (MarketWatch)
- Texas freeze helps rival oil exporters like Saudi Arabia, may influence OPEC (CNBC)
- Post-Covid-19, Shipping Tailwinds Will Still be Strong (Wall Street Journal)
- Khashoggi killing report will test US-Saudi relations (Financial Times)
- Charlie Munger: It’s ‘absolute insanity’ to think owning 100 stocks instead of five makes you a better investor (Yahoo! Finance)
- Risk-Parity Quants Hammered by Stocks and Bonds Moving Together (Bloomberg)
- Boost to Household Income Primes Economy for Growth (Wall Street Journal)
- Pfizer and BioNTech Studying Third Covid-19 Vaccine Dose to Fight New Strains (Wall Street Journal)
- Global Trade Roars Back From Depths of Covid-19 Pandemic (Wall Street Journal)
- Rare Bond-Market Inversion Signals Short-Lived Boost to Inflation (Wall Street Journal)
- U.S. consumer spending rebounds in January (Reuters)
Category: What I’m Reading Today
Be in the know. 30 key reads for Thursday…
- Highlights from Charlie Munger at the Daily Journal Annual Meeting (Yahoo! Finance)
- You May Not Want It. The Energy Report 02/25/2021 (Phil Flynn)
- As the vaccine rollout gathers pace, this could be the ‘trade of the decade’ (MarketWatch)
- Nothing Lucid About a $57 Billion Valuation for an Electric-Vehicle Startup (Wall Street Journal)
- Big Banks Love Rising Interest Rates: 4 Dividend Stocks to Buy Now (24/7 Wall Street)
- DoorDash Investors Should Relish Their Feast (Wall Street Journal)
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration Analysis of Johnson and Johnson Vaccine Finds Safe and Effective—EUA Anticipated Soon (trialsitenews)
- Pfizer Will Test Third Dose of Vaccine to Protect Against Variants (Barron’s)
- A New Oil Dividend Trend Could Pay Off for Investors (Barron’s)
- A new wave of fearless retail investors could be ready to pour $170 billion into stocks, says Deutsche Bank (MarketWatch)
- Dividends Could Rise 5% in a Rebound Year, Helped by More Special Payouts (Barron’s)
- Here are 3 reasons that the stock market can survive rising bond yields in 2021 (MarketWatch)
- Opinion: These 15 companies are run in a Warren Buffett-like way (MarketWatch)
- Paramount+ promises a ‘Godfather’ streaming series and a ‘Frasier’ reboot. (New York Times)
- Losing Bid for Postal Contract Proves Costly for Electric-Vehicle Maker (New York Times)
- UBS Upgrades AstraZeneca (AZN:LN) (AZN) to Buy on ‘Much Cleaner Pro-Forma Profile’ (Street Insider)
- Charlie Munger Talks Bitcoin, SPACs And GameStop Mania: ‘It Must End Badly, But I Don’t Know When’ (Benzinga)
- Boeing Trying To Resume Max 737 Flights In Asia: Report (Benzinga)
- Powell pulls his punches on benefits of more fiscal stimulus (Financial Times)
- Inflation fears rattle global bond markets (Financial Times)
- Buffett’s Letter to Break Months of Silence Amid Tumult in U.S. (Bloomberg)
- SPAC and ESG Fads on Collision Course With Billions at Stake (Bloomberg)
- Cathie Wood’s Tesla Noise Is Deafening Investors (Bloomberg)
- Chevron CEO on modern leadership: You can’t be afraid to make yourself heard (CNBC)
- Australia passes law to make Google, Facebook pay for news (USA Today)
- J&J’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is Safe and Effective, FDA Says, Paving Way for Approval (Wall Street Journal)
- Israeli Study Finds Pfizer Shot Equally Effective for Young and Old (Wall Street Journal)
- Saudi Arabia Borrows at Negative Rates for First Time as Oil Recovers (Wall Street Journal)
- Why Higher Rates Are Hammering Big Tech (Wall Street Journal)
- Yellen describes vaccines as global economy’s ‘strongest stimulus’ in G-20 letter (MarketWatch)
Be in the know. 22 key reads for Wednesday…
- The Cereal Industry Had a Very Weird Year (Bloomberg)
- To Make More Covid-19 Vaccines, Rival Drugmakers Team Up (Wall Street Journal)
- Why the Fed Needs to Prove Its New Tolerance for Inflation (Barron’s)
- Stocks Rise as Fed Chair Says Light at the End of the Tunnel Remains Distant (New York Times)
- ‘Reflation Trade’ Looks Promising. These Assets Look Too Hot. (Barron’s)
- Box Shares Rally on Report Starboard May Seek Three Additional Board Seats (Barron’s)
- Wells Fargo Is Streamlining More of Its Operations. What It Means for the Stock. (Barron’s)
- Structured Notes Saw Record Demand in a Volatile 2020. Investors Should Mind the Fine Print. (Barron’s)
- Credit Suisse Raised its S&P 500 Price Target. Thank Earnings Momentum. (Barron’s)
- Powell Focuses on Economic Need at Key Moment in Markets and Politics (NYT)
- Why it may be time to buy airline stocks (Yahoo! Finance)
- 5 Analyst Favorite Stocks at Raymond James Are Perfect Reopening Theme Buys (24/7 Wall Street)
- P&G CEO expects higher demand for cleaning products to outlast pandemic (CNBC)
- Roblox is going public: 5 things to know about the tween-centric gaming platform (MarketWatch)
- If you think it’s time to shift to value stocks, here are Wall Street’s favorites (MarketWatch)
- Here are 3 reasons why the stock market can survive rising bond yields in 2021 (MarketWatch)
- CVS says it will reach millions of new customers as it administers COVID vaccine (MarketWatch)
- J&J Single-Shot Covid Vaccine Found Effective Before FDA Review (Bloomberg)
- Delta CEO Predicts Business Travel Comeback With Two Key Metrics (Bloomberg)
- Exelon to Separate Power-Generation Business Via Spinoff (Bloomberg)
- For the Posh, Bentley’s New Flying Spur Is Practically Pious (Bloomberg)
- Iran Limits Access to Nuclear Sites but Open to Talks With U.S. (Wall Street Journal)
Be in the know. 30 key reads for Tuesday…
- Powell says inflation is still ‘soft’ and the Fed is committed to current policy stance (CNBC)
- 6 Inexpensive Stocks for Market Contrarians (Barron’s)
- World’s Largest Hedge Fund Manager Warns Emerging Tech Stocks In “Extreme Bubble” (ZeroHedge)
- Tesla Stock Is in a Bear Market. It’s Taking Other EV Stocks With It. (Barron’s)
- Consumer Demand Snaps Back. Factories Can’t Keep Up. (Wall Street Journal)
- Tech Stocks Outside U.S. Also Hammered as Interest Rates Rise (Barron’s)
- Roblox Sets Date to Go Public Through a Direct Listing (Barron’s)
- Carl Icahn Charges Up FirstEnergy Stock (Barron’s)
- The Reflation Trade Is Well Underway. How Long Can Investors Keep Smiling? (Barron’s)
- U.S. Consumers Have Spending Power. Here Are 11 Retail Stocks to Play the Economic Recovery. (Barron’s)
- How Much Do Central Banks Fear the Bond Toddler? (Bloomberg)
- Analysis: How rich is Saudi Arabia? Kingdom does the math in balance sheet overhaul (Reuters)
- Fed’s Powell heads to Congress with economy at a crossroads (Reuters)
- Wells Fargo Sheds Its Asset Manager as Scharf Reshapes Bank (Bloomberg)
- House committee clears $1.9T COVID relief package (FoxBusiness)
- The Energy Report 02/23/2021 (Phil Flynn)
- When is stimulus too much for markets? (Financial Times)
- Re-opening trades keep ripping: Morning Brief (Yahoo! Finance)
- US Home Prices Accelerate At Fastest Pace Since 2014 (ZeroHedge)
- BofA hikes 2021 Brent price view by $10/bbl on strong oil balances (Reuters)
- AMC Stock Jumps as New York City Says Cinemas Can Reopen (Barron’s)
- Historic Gains in Small Stocks Highlight Investor Exuberance (Wall Street Journal)
- More Than 209 Million Shots Given: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker (Bloomberg)
- Astra Antibody Trials Show Promising Signs Against Variants (Bloomberg)
- Oil and Gas Industry ‘Demonized,’ Novatek Says: IP Week Update (Bloomberg)
- Indian billionaire says the country’s regulators need to ‘step in and ban bitcoin’ (CNBC)
- Churchill Capital Corp IV plunges 35% after Lucid Motors strikes SPAC deal to go public with a $24 billion valuation (Business Insider)
- A tangled market web of Tesla-bitcoin-ARK Investment could spell trouble for investors, warns strategist (MarketWatch)
- F.C.C. Broadband Plan Includes $50 Monthly Subsidy for Millions (New York Times)
- Australia, Facebook agree to lift news ban (USA Today)
Be in the know. 15 key reads for Monday…
- Gas Surges Above $3 In These States as Oil Prices Jump (24/7 Wall Street)
- If Inflation Is Coming, These Stocks Will Benefit the Most (Barron’s)
- Texas Looks to Rebuild. Here Are 6 Stocks That Could Benefit. (Barron’s)
- Four Things to Know About the Housing Market in 2021 (Barron’s)
- Blue-Collar Jobs Boom as Covid-19 Boosts Housing, E-Commerce Demand (Wall Street Journal)
- Bond Selloff Prompts Stock Investors to Confront Rising Rates (Wall Street Journal)
- Why an Animated Flying Cat With a Pop-Tart Body Sold for Almost $600,000 (New York Times)
- Canada To Follow Australia’s Lead In Charging Facebook For Links (ZeroHedge)
- The 20th Annual Rich List, the Definitive Ranking of What Hedge Fund Managers Earned in 2020 (Iinstitutional Investor)
- Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan Enters Three-Week Congress Dash (Bloomberg)
- Strategists Pick Commodities as a Favorite Way to Play Reflation (Bloomberg)
- Wall Street Is Inflation-Proofing Its Debt-Market Portfolios (Bloomberg)
- Exxon Pushed for Net-Zero Goal by Activist Shareholder (Bloomberg)
- Bubble Warnings Go Unheeded as Everyone Is a Buyer in Stocks (Yahoo! Finance)
- The Four Basic Truths of Macroeconomics (Bloomberg)
- This strategist lists 7 reasons that stocks are a buy even as bond yields climb (MarketWatch)
- General Electric (GE) PT Raised to $15 After Goldman Sachs Hosts Virtual NDR (StreetInsider)
Be in the know. 12 key reads for Sunday…
- Smartphone sales have dropped two calendar years straight for the first time, according to Gartner. (CNBC)
- Inflation Angst Is About to Rewrite the Stock Market Playbook (Bloomberg)
- The Transcript 02.15.2020 (theweeklytranscript)
- ‘Trillions’ Are the New Billions: How the Federal Budget Grew Detached from Reality (manhattan-institute)
- Facebook pulled the trigger on Australian news — and shot itself in the foot (thenextweb)
- How Mathematician Katherine Johnson Helped Make Human Space Flight Possible (Robb Report)
- Is A/D Line Signally Late-February Weakness? (Almanac Trader)
- Bugatti Reveals $8.8 Million, 1,600-HP Centodieci Hypercar (Maxim)
- form follows aerodynamics with the all-new mclaren artura hybrid supercar (designboom)
- Bitcoin and ethereum prices ‘seem high,’ says Musk (Reuters)
- From Tokyo to Texas, Forbes Travel Guide’s New Five-Star Hotels For 2021 (Forbes)
- David Lynch’s Industrious Pandemic (The New Yorker)
Be in the know. 25 key reads for Saturday…
- Oracle Is Turning Into a Cloud Giant. Why Its Stock Is a Buy. (Barron’s)
- Asset managers rush to shore up portfolios against inflation (Financial Times)
- Top 100 places to eat in the US in 2021, according to Yelp (USA Today)
- Some Covid-19 Vaccines Are Effective After One Dose, Can Be Stored in Normal Freezers, Data Show (Wall Street Journal)
- JPMorgan still thinks the S&P 500 can rally another 12% this year as US consumer spending explodes for these 7 reasons (Business Insider)
- ‘Green bubble’ warnings grow as money pours into renewable stocks (Financial Times)
- Why This Bull Market Shows No Sign of Ending Soon (Barron’s)
- Warren Buffett’s Letter to Shareholders Is Coming. What Investors Want to See. (Barron’s)
- BDCs Yield Around 9%, but Their Quality Varies. Here’s How to Judge Them. (Barron’s)
- What Gene Editing Can Do for Humankind (Wall Street Journal)
- U.S. stock-market investors are already betting on an infrastructure spending spree (MarketWatch)
- Yes, Rates Are Rising. But Equity Investors Don’t Seem to Care. (Barron’s)
- Tech Valuations Are Getting Scary. Here’s How We Know. (Barron’s)
- Bank Stocks Are Getting Hot. They Still Have Room to Run. (Barron’s)
- The Doves Are in Charge Again. What That Means for Interest Rates (Barron’s)
- The Argument for the Reborn Chesapeake Energy (Barron’s)
- Carl Icahn Charges Up FirstEnergy Stock (Barron’s)
- Biden Says He’s Open to Making His $1.9 Trillion Aid Plan ‘Cheaper’ (Barron’s)
- Texas Looks to Rebuild. Here Are 6 Stocks That Could Benefit. (Barron’s)
- ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry says ‘prepare for inflation’ – and warns bitcoin and gold might be at risk (Business Insider)
- How Carl Icahn could create value with this health company, which has many valuable businesses (CNBC)
- Katie Haun on the Dark Web, Gangs, Investigating Bitcoin, and The New Magic of “Nifties” (NFTs) (#499) (Tim Ferriss)
- Investors, Don’t Succumb To The Fear Of Missing Out (Forbes)
- What Gene Editing Can Do for Humankind (Wall Street Journal)
- Why Your Wild Trading Ideas Feel So Right (Wall Street Journal)
Be in the know. 20 key reads for Friday…
- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen makes push for major stimulus, sees bigger risk in not doing enough (CNBC)
- We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April (Wall Street Journal)
- Why 5 Buy-Rated Energy Stocks May Have Much Higher Upside Potential (24/7 Wall Street)
- FirstEnergy says activist investor Carl Icahn looking to buy stake (Yahoo! Finance)
- Millennium emerges as top hedge fund investor in Spacs (Financial Times)
- Single Dose of Pfizer Vaccine Is 85% Effective, Study Shows (Barron’s)
- Novavax Unveils Potentially Huge Deal to Supply Vaccines (Barron’s)
- The Big Oil Stocks That Goldman Says Have up to 50% Upside Ahead of a Global Recovery (Barron’s)
- Hedge funds on the lookout: ‘they don’t want to get burned’, says analyst as GameStop-style short interest falls (MarketWatch)
- Fluor Is Engineering a Turnaround. Its Stock Could Soar 80%. (Barron’s)
- ‘I am not a cat’: GameStop hearing provides drama and humor (USA Today)
- Pfizer says vaccine can be stored in normal freezer temperatures: Latest COVID-19 updates (USA Today)
- Can Allbirds Live Up to Its $1 Billion Valuation? (Bloomberg)
- Billionaire Peterffy Says N.Y. Rich in Florida Are There to Stay (Bloomberg)
- Billionaire investor Bill Gross made $10 million betting against GameStop — after he was down $15 million at one point (Business Insider)
- Walgreens to start receiving 480,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses a week (MarketWatch)
- How Redditors Find the Next GameStop Stock (Wall Street Journal)
- Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces: The New Way to Play, Network and Escape Video Calls (Wall Street Journal)
- Leon Cooperman Calls for Reinstating the Uptick Rule (Bloomberg)
- Shipping Container Shortage Gives Commodity Prices Extra Boost (Wall Street Journal)
Be in the know. 20 key reads for Thursday…
- Wells Fargo stock extends surge after Wall Street’s lone bear said it’s no longer a sell (MarketWatch)
- Mercedes Owner Daimler Says Profit Surged 48% in 2020 on High Demand for Premium Vehicles, Will Spin-Off and List its Daimler Truck Division (StreetInsider)
- VIX Outlook ‘Less Controversial’ Going Forward After Dipping Below 20 for the First Time in 255 Days – UBS (StreetInsider)
- Hedge funds, Robinhood face grilling by Congress over GameStop Reddit rally (StreetInsider)
- U.S. weekly jobless claims unexpectedly rise (Reuters)
- Food Prices Continue to Rise. Expect Bigger Grocery Bills. (Barron’s)
- GE CEO Larry Culp Is Talking About 2021. Cash Flow Is the Key. (Barron’s)
- U.S. Retail Sales Rose Strongly on Stimulus in January (Wall Street Journal)
- Should AT&T Or Verizon Try To Acquire Nokia In 2021? (Yahoo! Finance)
- Dogecoin Has a Top Dog Worth $2.1 Billion (Wall Street Journal)
- Oil Prices Are Up, but Frackers Stay on the Sidelines—for Now (Wall Street Journal)
- Wells Fargo’s $8 Billion Question: How to Slash Costs Without Angering Regulators (Wall Street Journal)
- McLaren’s $258,000 Hybrid Boasts Blazing Speed (Bloomberg)
- U.S. Housing Starts Fell in January for First Time Since August (Bloomberg)
- Music Mogul Buys Beach Boys Songs, Calling Band ‘Underappreciated’ (Bloomberg)
- Bob Pisani explains how ‘payment for order flow’ works (CNBC)
- Walmart shares fall on earnings miss, retailer sees sales growth slowing (CNBC)
- How Lamborghini learned to love the SUV (CNBC)
- No Pandemic Sugar Rush for Nestlé (Wall Street Journal)
- Robinhood heads to the Hill: What to watch at the Congressional hearing (Financial Times)
Be in the know. 20 key reads for Wednesday…
- Berkshire Reveals New Positions In Chevron, Verizon; Exits JPM; Trims Apple, Wells: Full 13F Summary (ZeroHedge)
- Goldman Tells Clients To “Add Energy” Stocks Which Are Badly Lagging Commodities (ZeroHedge)
- 5 Health Care Laggards With Healthy Upside Potential (24/7 Wall Street)
- February Bank of America Global Fund Manager Survey Results (Summary) (HedgeFundTips)
- This Is What Hedge Funds Bought And Sold In Q4: Complete 13F Summary (ZeroHedge)
- Waiting for Big Pharma’s Coronavirus Profits to Impress Wall Street (Wall Street Journal)
- Energy Transfer (ET) to Acquire Enable Midstream Partners (ENBL) in $7 Billion All-Equity Transaction (Street Insider)
- U.S. shale could face weeks of depressed oil production due to cold (Reuters)
- Baupost Group Takes a Large Stake in Intel (Institutional Investor)
- Mario Draghi lays out ambitious reforms for Italy (Financial Times)
- ‘We got lucky’: hedge funds that cashed in on the Reddit rally (Financial Times)
- Total chief warns of renewable energy bubble (Financial Times)
- The Riskiest Stocks Are in Favor. Why That Probably Won’t Change Soon. (Barron’s)
- Fed’s Yield-Curve Control Isn’t for Taming Long Bonds (Bloomberg)
- How Roblox, a video game platform for kids, became a $30 billion company (CNBC)
- ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry joins Warren Buffett in betting on Kraft Heinz (Business Insider)
- COVID-19 cases are dropping like a rock: Morning Brief (Yahoo! Finance)
- Why Rare Earths May Leave Europe and U.S. Vulnerable (Bloomberg)
- Building an Ice Rink in Your Backyard? ‘Water and Gravity Will Always Win’ (Wall Street Journal)
- Bulk Condo Buyers Descend on Manhattan, Looking for Cut-Rate Deals (Wall Street Journal)