Be in the know. 22 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (wsj)
  2. China, Hong Kong stock markets are back in favour with global investors, HKEX CEO Bonnie Chan says (scmp)
  3. CPC leadership reviews measures to further energize central region, provisions to defuse financial risks (cn)
  4. China’s Xi Pledges to Make Youth Employment a Top Priority (bloomberg)
  5. U.S. consumer confidence rebounds in May after three months of decline (marketwatch)
  6. Home prices reach new high in March, Case-Shiller says, fueled by scarcity (marketwatch)
  7. This Wall Street Shake-Up Will Put Money in Your Hands Faster (barrons)
  8. UBS leapfrogs UBS with new S&P 500 price target (marketwatch)
  9. Apple iPhone Shipments In China Rebound 52%, Market Share Loss To Huawei May Be Stabilizing (zerohedge)
  10. 7 Biases That Can Cloud Investors’ Judgment About Finances (barrons)
  11. New Rules for Buying a Home Are Coming. A Guide to Getting the Best Deal. (barrons)
  12. China Raises $48 Billion for Semiconductor Fund to Bolster Chip-Making Capabilities (wsj)
  13. Hate Chatbots? You Aren’t the Only One (wsj)
  14. How to Have a Great Vacation: What Science Tells Us (wsj)
  15. Bullish Investors Are Piling Into Stock and Bond Funds (wsj)
  16. Bankruptcies Have Left More Stores Vacant, but the Space Doesn’t Sit Empty for Long (wsj)
  17. AI Is Driving ‘the Next Industrial Revolution.’ Wall Street Is Cashing In. (wsj)
  18. San Francisco’s Hot Tourist Attraction: Driverless Cars (nytimes)
  19. The small town life beckons for many as Americans continue to flee big cities (usatoday)
  20. Hedge Funds Split Over Stocks’ Move From Here (zerohedge)
  21. Guangzhou Follows Shanghai Real Estate Policy (chinalastnight)
  22. Western businesses backtrack on their Russia exit plans (ft)

Be in the know. 27 key reads for Memorial Day…

  1. What’s Andy Jassy’s Best Business Advantage? A Positive Attitude (inc)
  2. Alibaba News Roundup: Alibaba Raises $4.5B Via Convertible Bonds; Alibaba Cloud Partners with Olympic Broadcasting Services (alizila)
  3. Alibaba Cloud Expands Data Center Network and Global Gen AI Offerings (alizila)
  4. Explore our latest Top 100 Courses in the World ranking (golf)
  5. How the world’s best memorizers remember things (fastcompany)
  6. The Curse is Broken, Charles Leclerc Wins the Monaco Grand Prix (roadandtrack)
  7. I analyzed 1,353 shots from Scottie Scheffler’s historic streak—these are the secrets to his success (golfdigest)
  8. The Best Cars That Still Offer a Manual Transmission in 2024, Ranked (roadandtrack)
  9. Google Set to Make Its Largest Acquisition Ever, Threatening Microsoft (gizmodo)
  10. For AI to Deliver on Its Promises, People Need to Trust It (cnet)
  11. Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (theverge)
  12. 5 best Netflix comedy movies you should watch on Memorial Day (digitaltrends)
  13. Darshan Shah’s KPIs for Healthy Aging (ypo)
  14. With AI, anyone can be a coder now (ted)
  15. An activist investor on challenging the status quo (ted)
  16. How Red Lobster got cooked and other indicators (npr)
  17. How Horsepower Works (howstuffworks)
  18. Spy Slang: 24 Top Secret Terms You Should Know (mentalfloss)
  19. The Origins of All 32 NHL Team Names (mentalfloss)
  20. Nuclear Energy’s Bottom Line (theatlantic)
  21. The Man Who Moves Markets (theatlantic)
  22. Don’t Believe the AI Hype (project-syndicate)
  23. Why the US Can’t Win the Trade War With China (project-syndicate)
  24. Surfing the American Dream (slate)
  25. Something Just Flipped in the Credit Market for the First Time Since 2020 (bloomberg)
  26. 4 Predictions for What Happens If TikTok Gets Banned in the U.S., According to a Harvard Business School Professor (inc)
  27. Here are the companies OpenAI has made deals with to train ChatGPT (fastcompany)

Be in the know. 8 key reads for Sunday…

  1. The Hidden Driver of Soaring Home Insurance Costs (wsj)
  2. US equity funds see massive weekly inflows on rate cut expectations (reuters)
  3. Weekly Leading Economic Index (advisorperspectives)
  4. Banks don’t want to inspect your home office, so they’re forcing hundreds of employees to come in five days a week (fortune)
  5. Could drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy help people live longer? Some experts see them as potential longevity pills (fortune)
  6. Can the rich world escape its baby crisis? (economist)
  7. AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, and the leading apps are from China (techcrunch)
  8. ‘Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.’ (psyche)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Saturday…

  1. The ECB May Beat the Fed to Cutting Rates. Here Are the Risks. (barrons)
  2. Cancer Biotech Stocks Are on the Move Ahead of a Big Event. What to Know. (barrons)
  3. Warner Bros. Discovery Exec Bought Up the ‘Undervalued’ Stock (barrons)
  4. In early May, Stellantis unveiled the new sales program for dealers, which provides cash awards for hitting aggressive monthly targets. (wsj)
  5. Bearish Trades Crater Fast in Wall Street’s High-Momentum Rally (bloomberg)
  6. Nvidia ‘seems bubbly’ because it won’t be able to maintain its dominant market share, investing legend Rob Arnott says (businessinsider)
  7. ‘‘I told the guy that if he reads Security Analysis [by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd] and The Intelligent Investor [by Benjamin Graham] and then reads all of Warren Buffett’s annual reports, and if he really understands what they were saying, he will know everything there is to know about investing.’’ (Bill Miller)
  8. Benetti Superyachts Are Favored by Everyone From Jay-Z To James Bond (maxim)
  9. How The Ferrari 250 GTO Became The World’s Most Valuable Production Car (maxim)
  10. This N.Y.C. Steakhouse Is America’s Best, According To Meaty New Rankings (maxim)