Be in the know. 15 key reads for Sunday…

  1. US Mulls More Support for Banks While Giving First Republic Time (bloomberg)
  2. Why More Deals Are Likely After the Fall of Credit Suisse (nytimes)
  3. What’s eating Deutsche Bank? (ft)
  4. US banking stresses seem to be . . . easing? (ft)
  5. The 10 Best New Movies On Netflix In 2023: March Edition (forbes)
  6. How ChatGPT Is Fast Becoming The Teacher’s Pet (forbes)
  7. Analysts Point To Selected Regional Bank Stock Bargains, Including 7% Yielding Preferreds (forbes)
  8. Valley National bidding for Silicon Valley Bank, Bloomberg reports (reuters)
  9. The 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 Is ‘World’s Fastest, Most Powerful Muscle Car’ (maxim)
  10. Tencent returns to growth, expects AI to be major boost (technode)
  11. Inside a bank run (npr)
  12. Transcript: Where Stress Is Building in the $20 Trillion Commercial Real Estate Market (bloomberg)
  13. We grade Fed Chair Jerome Powell (npr)
  14. ChatGPT Can Now Browse the Web, Help Book Flights and More (cnet)
  15. Ford CEO on EV transition: ‘Batteries are the constraint’ (finance.yahoo)

Be in the know. 27 key reads for Saturday…

  1. The Fed is putting the economy in jeopardy by not prioritizing the stability of the banking system, Moody’s chief economist says (businessinsider)
  2. These charts suggest the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield’s uptrend has ended (marketwatch)
  3. Bank Chaos Tests Traders’ Nerves and Rewards Those Doing Nothing (bloomberg)
  4. White House worried over Janet Yellen’s fumbling of US bank crisis: sources (nypost)
  5. US Bank Deposits Decline by Most in Nearly a Year (bloomberg)
  6. 4 Undervalued Financial Stocks for the Long-Term Market (morningstar)
  7. Work-From-Home Era Ends for Millions of People (wsj)
  8. Billionaire Marc Lasry Sees More Money Leaving Regional Banks (bloomberg)
  9. Nearly $100 billion in deposits pulled from banks; officials call system ‘sound and resilient’ (cnbc)
  10. The Financial Sector Is Teetering On Historic Technical Support! (kimblechartingsolutions)
  11. Fed Data Show a Drop in U.S. Commercial Bank Deposits (barrons)
  12. Banks Are Borrowing at Financial Crisis Levels. What It Means. (barrons)
  13. Emerging Market Banks Are Holding Up. Watch These 6 Stocks. (barrons)
  14. SVB Sale Is Close. FDIC Seeking a Deal by Monday. (barrons)
  15. After the Bank Crisis Clears, Consolidation Looms (barrons)
  16. Centene Stock Is Way Down. The CEO Moves to Buy Shares of the Health Insurer. (barrons)
  17. Bard vs. ChatGPT vs. Bing: Why Google Restricted Its Chatbot (Exclusive) (wsj)
  18. Tim Cook praises Apple’s ‘symbiotic’ relationship with China (ft)
  19. Watch Chevrolet Camaro’s five-decade evolution in 45 seconds, GM to retire classic car (usatoday)
  20. David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality, The Importance of Disobedience, The Inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence, Finding Good Problems, Redefining Wealth, Foundations of True Knowledge, Harnessing Optimism, Quantum Computing, and More (#662) (timferriss)
  21. Top 10 Buys and Sells From Our Ultimate Stock-Pickers (morningstar)
  22. SVB Collapse; Biden vs Trump; Losing $400M on Netflix | Bill Ackman Full Interview (youtube)
  23. Why I never invest in bank shares (ft)
  24. IC Interviews: Joel Greenblatt (youtube)
  25. Billionaire David Tepper makes wager on Silicon Valley Bank debt (ft)
  26. Three Lectures by Warren Buffett to Notre Dame Faculty, MBA Students and Undergraduate Students (Tilson)
  27. Leon Cooperman on ‘Self-Induced’ Crisis, Federal Reserve (bloomberg)

Be in the know. 17 key reads for Friday…

  1. Fed Balance Sheet Surges By Another $100BN Amid Bank Runs As Foreign Repos Soar By Record And Cash Floods Into Reverse Repo, Money Markets (zerohedge)
  2. The US banking system may not be as strong as Powell and Yellen are saying, market veteran Ed Yardeni says (businessinsider)
  3. Volcker Slayed Inflation. Bernanke Saved the Banks. Can Powell Do Both? (bloomberg)
  4. Banks Are Still Drawing on the Fed for $164 Billion of Emergency Cash (bloomberg)
  5. Yellen says Treasury is ready to take ‘additional actions if warranted’ to stabilize banks (cnbc)
  6. Why Vietnam’s Markets Trail Its Sizzling Economy (barrons)
  7. Deutsche Bank Stock Tumbles. Banking Panic Isn’t Over Yet. (barrons)
  8. Banks Are Borrowing at Financial Crisis Levels. What It Means. (barrons)
  9. Cathie Wood’s ARK funds snap up Block after short-seller report (marketwatch)
  10. Bill Ackman warns of acceleration in deposit outflows from banks despite Fed’s assurances (marketwatch)
  11. The Personalized Stem Cells That Could One Day Treat Parkinson’s and Heart Failure (wsj)
  12. Tencent, NetEase win new Chinese video game licences in March (scmp)
  13. Wedbush says it’s ‘not seeing anything illegal’ with Block even as short-seller Hindenburg alleges the payment firm misled investors (businessinsider)
  14. Steve Forbes says the Fed’s stubborn rate hikes are trashing the US economy (businessinsider)
  15. Barry Sternlicht warns the economy is facing a sharp slump as the Fed uses ‘a steamroller to get the price of milk down 2 cents’ (businessinsider)
  16. Investor Rush to Cash Is Fastest Since Covid Hit, BofA Says (bloomberg)
  17. Fed’s Bostic Says Rate Decision Came After ‘a Lot of Debate’ (bloomberg)