Category: What I’m Reading Today

1. Bond Traders Face Plenty of Risk as Powell Ushers In a New Era (Bloomberg)
2. This Alibaba business could be its next big moneymaker (Market Watch)
3. America’s Hidden Workforce Returns (Wall Street Journal)
4. Four Low-Debt Stocks to Buy for Uncertain Times (Barron’s)
5. Intel Stock Is Selling Off. Here’s Why You Should Buy. (Barron’s)
6. Trump To Try Nominating People He Agrees With To Fed Board (Dealbreaker)
7. Why Xilinx Is Seeing Strong Growth When Many Chip Peers Aren’t Growing at All (The Street)
8. Elizabeth Warren’s New Wealth Tax Could Cost Billionaires $85 Billion A Year (Forbes)
9. China confident of keeping 2019 growth within ‘appropriate range’ (Reuters)
10. The Marijuana Billionaire Who Doesn’t Smoke Weed (aka Don’t get high on your own supply): (Fortune)
11. Robots at a Budapest cafe serve up food and drink, tell jokes, dance with kids (First Post)

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1. Futures higher as lawmakers re-engage in bid to end shutdown stalemate (The Fly)
2. Elizabeth Warren Proposes 2% ‘Wealth Tax’ On Richest Americans (Zero Hedge)
3. The Fed may be moving closer to ending its rally-killing balance sheet reduction (CNBC)
4. What DR Horton Earnings Indicate About the Housing Market (24/7 Wall Street)
5. Creditors Say Edward Lampert Reaped Billions but Left Sears Insolvent (Wall Street Journal)

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1. Stocks to Buy in China’s Slowing Economy (Barron’s)
2. Initial Jobless Claims Crash To 50 Year Lows (Zero Hedge)
3. ECB Keeps Policy Unchanged to Battle Economic Slowdown (Bloomberg)
4. United Technologies Offers an All-Clear Signal (Wall Street Journal)
5. P&G Raises Outlook After Another Quarter of Strong Sales (Wall Street Journal)
6. American Airlines profit and forecast beat on higher fares (Reuters)
7. Lam Research (LRCX) Surpasses Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates (Nasdaq)

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1. IBM Stock Soars on Better-Than-Expected Earnings, Forecast: (Barron’s)
2. Tesla jacks up recharging prices for electric cars (New York Post)
3. China Proceeds With Belt and Road Push, but Does It More Quietly (New York Times)
4. Pound Strengthens as Delay to Exit Gains Traction: Brexit Update (Bloomberg)
5. The BoJ lowers its inflation forecasts (Business Insider)
6. EQT Rejects Rice Proposal to Shake Up Management (Wall Street Journal)

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1. Chilling Davos: A Bleak Warning on Global Division and Debt (New York Times)
2. Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund, sees a ‘significant risk’ of a possible US recession in 2020 (CNBC)
3. Goldman upgrades Under Armour to Conviction Buy, sees 37% share upside (The Fly)
4. Hedge Funds Hunt for Brexit Bargains (Bloomberg)
5. A data point known as a canary in the coal mine for the global economy just fell off a cliff (Business Insider)
6. Amazon will soon lose the biggest reason to pay for Prime (Business Insider)
7. Elliott urges eBay to restructure business to double market value (Reuters)

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1. Abby Joseph Cohen Highlights Global Bargains (Barron’s)
2. Why the stock market is headed for a swift recovery (USA Today)
3. Amazon Knows What You Buy. And It’s Building a Big Ad Business From It (New York Times)
4. Trump, Democrats Inch Closer Amid Personal Shutdown Sniping (Bloomberg)
5. Trump and Kim to Hold Second Summit in February (Wall Street Journal)

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1. Skittish investors made it a painful year-end for hedge funds (New York Post)
2. The Fed is Zeus and the algos are the underworld — Greek mythology is a lot like today’s wild markets, Macquarie says (Business Insider)
3. Five Ways to Profit from the Boom in Life Science (Barron’s)
4. What Keeps Economists Up At Night? And Other Stuff (NPR Planet Money)
5. How to Do Great Things (Farnam Street)

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1. Value Stocks Are So Cheap They Might Be Ready to Run (Barron’s)
2. 6 Regional Banks That Pay Big Dividend Yields (Barron’s)
3. U.S. Debates Lifting China Tariffs to Hasten Trade Deal, Calm Markets (Wall Street Journal)
4. Small caps just did something they haven’t in three decades (CNBC)
5. History shows the stock market may be setting up to rip higher once the government shutdown ends (Business Insider)

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1. Costco Stock Might Be a Good Buy After 2018’s Pullback (Barron’s)
2. The Hartford’s CEO Is Buying Up Stock for the First Time (Barron’s)
3. Junk-Bond Sales Have Been Slow, but Don’t Compare This to 2008 (Barron’s)
4. Fed Says Student Debt Has Hurt the U.S. Housing Market (Wall Street Journal)
5. Warren Buffett might be looking to buy these 12 stocks, Wells Fargo says (caveat: list is quantitative, not qualitative – Buffett generally doesn’t buy commodity stocks and generally avoids tech – but worth a read for metrics): (Business Insider)

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1. Cisco Is Heading for Serious Growth (Barron’s)
2. The Oil Market Is Beaten Up. It Could Be Merger Time. (Barron’s)
3. Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Earnings Are Adding Steam to the Rebound in Bank Stocks (Barron’s)
4. U.K. Lawmaker Proposes Bills to Prepare for Second Referendum: Brexit Update (Bloomberg)
5. Homebuilder sentiment turns higher in January after mortgage rates drop (CNBC)