Be in the know. 11 key reads for Friday…

  1. US Producer Prices Fall Again, Boosting Bets on Fed Rate Cuts (bloomberg)
  2. Walgreens CEO Bought Up Stock After Cutting Dividend (barrons)
  3. Why Airline Stocks Are Worth a Flier: Passenger Demand Is Growing (barrons)
  4. U.S.-China Ties Will Be Reshaped by Taiwan’s Election. The Markets Are Just Waiting. (barrons)
  5. CSRC to Promote Listed Firms to Increase Div. Pay Awareness, Use Buyback Tools According to Law (aastocks)
  6. Citigroup is cutting 10% of its workforce in CEO Jane Fraser’s corporate overhaul (cnbc)
  7. Are Small Caps at the Tail End of Their Historic Underperformance Cycle? (institutionalinvestor)
  8. US-China Greenshoots, Does Peak Pessimism + Poor Positioning = Rally? (chinalastnight)
  9. China Pledges to Boost Developer Lending to Tackle Home Sales Slump (bloomberg)
  10. Alibaba trades at 7.6 times forward earnings vs CLP’s 13 times (bloomberg)
  11. Lots More on What’s Hot at JPM’s Health Conference (bloomberg)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Shanghai rolls out measures to bolster equity investment, tech innovation (scmp)
  2. Berkshire Hathaway Takes Occidental Stake to 34% (barrons)
  3. PayPal Stock Has Been Suffering. What Its New CEO Should Do Next. (barrons)
  4. Ellison’s Skydance Eyes Deal for Paramount Parent National Amusements: WSJ (barrons)
  5. Hertz to sell 20,000 electric vehicles as demand for traditional cars remains strong (ft)
  6. US-China Greenshoots, Does Peak Pessimism + Poor Positioning = Rally? (chinalastnight)
  7. Consumer prices rose 0.3% in December, higher than expected, pushing the annual rate to 3.4% (cnbc)
  8. How KFC won over China (cnbc)
  9. Jim Cramer talks banks ahead of earnings season kick off (cnbc)
  10. China’s Chip Output May Double in Five Years, Barclays Says (bloomberg)