Be in the know. 25 key reads for Thursday…

  1. The S&P 500 Took Off at Year’s End. Earnings Could Bring More Gains. (barrons)
  2. Signs That Prices Might Be Heading Back Down Soon (barrons)
  3. Why Visa, Juggernaut of the Payments Business, Is a Buy (barrons)
  4. Fed Minutes Suggest More Stock-Market Turmoil Could Lie Ahead (barrons)
  5. Biggest Tech Selling in a Decade as Rate Rout Spooks Hedge Funds (bloomberg)
  6. These Pharma Firms Have the Cash for Acquisitions (barrons)
  7. Netflix’s Subscriber Growth May Fall Short, Analyst Says. Why He’s Still Upbeat. (barrons)
  8. Tech Stocks Are Having Their Worst Start to a Year Since 2008. What’s Behind the Selloff. (barrons)
  9. Meme Stocks, Crypto Sink as Possible Rate Hike Looms. GameStop and AMC Led the Slump. (barrons)
  10. Walgreens Stock Rises on Profit Beat and Guidance Raise (barrons)
  11. 20 cheap value stocks that Wall Street expects to rise up to 58% (marketwatch)
  12. Fed Minutes Point to Possible Rate Increase in March (wsj)
  13. China’s Unpredictable, Heavy-Handed Governance Threatens Growth (wsj)
  14. Anger at Xi’an Lockdown Spreads in China (wsj)
  15. AT&T Shed Media Assets in 2021. This Year It Wants to Add Investors. (wsj)
  16. Goldman Strategists See Haven in Europe Stocks Amid Rate Hikes (bloomberg)
  17. Boeing stock gains after Atlas Air orders 4 Boeing 777 freighters (marketwatch)
  18. Big tech stocks will be ‘bumpy’ in 2022: Bob Doll (foxbusiness)
  19. Wells Fargo, Bank of America draw price target hikes on bullish loan data (marketwatch)
  20. Wall Street Loves China More Than Ever (bloomberg)
  21. China’s digital currency comes to its biggest messaging app WeChat, which has over a billion users (cnbc)
  22. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway may be buying Japanese stocks again, based on its latest bond issue (businessinsider)
  23. Alibaba bets on the metaverse with DingTalk AR glasses (scmp)
  24. This tech giant will shape the future of the metaverse, buy its stock: analyst (yahoo)
  25. Could A Graphite Shortage Derail The $3 Trillion EV Boom? (yahoo)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Charlie Munger’s Firm Doubles Down on Alibaba Investment. Again. (barrons)
  2. Boeing Stock Rises on New 737 MAX Order (barrons)
  3. AT&T Shed Media Assets in 2021. Now It Wants Investors. (wsj)
  4. Chinese Premier Li Urges Bigger Tax Cuts to Ensure Economic Growth (bloomberg)
  5. Manchin Deflates Democrats’ Hopes of Changing Filibuster, Passing Election Bills (wsj)
  6. China’s Stocks Had a Tumultuous Year. Analysts Size Up the Market’s Prospects for 2022. (barrons)
  7. China Tech Selloff Deepens as Tencent Sale Spooks Traders (bloomberg)
  8. Long Shadows. The Energy Report 01/05/2022 (Phil Flynn)
  9. Fed Minutes Eyed for Details on Rate Liftoff, Shrinking Assets (bloomberg)
  10. S. Companies Add Most Jobs in Seven Months, ADP Data Show (bloomberg)
  11. Gas Tankers Divert From China to Europe in Price Premium Race (bloomberg)
  12. AT&T Stock Rises After Posting 1.3 Million Subscriber Adds (barrons)
  13. Omicron seems to have peaked or plateaued in some regions, experts say (cnbc)
  14. China says apps that could influence public opinion require a security review (cnbc)
  15. A Slimmer Build Back Better Bill Is Still Possible (barrons)
  16. Stocks will rally in 2022 even as US interest rates hit 2%, Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel says (businessinsider)
  17. General Electric upgraded to Outperform from Neutral at Credit Suisse (thefly)
  18. Turkish Central Bank Revives Bond-Buying Drive to Rein In Yields (bloomberg)
  19. BofA Securities Out With 10 Favorite Stock Ideas for Q1 2022 (247wallst)
  20. Opinion: Why the bull market will stay alive in 2022 — plus 8 cheap stocks for your money now (marketwatch)
  21. Opinion: Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s right-hand man, just turned 98 and has some choice words about inflation, EBITDA and marriage (marketwatch)
  22. Federal Reserve could invert Treasury yield curve by third quarter as it delivers rate hikes, economists say (marketwatch)
  23. Fed’s Kashkari, a leading dove, backs two interest-rate hikes this year (marketwatch)
  24. JPM Urges Clients To “Stay Bullish” As Positive Catalysts “Are Not Exhausted” (zerohedge)
  25. China’s internet watchdog posts revised app rules to tighten cybersecurity provisions (scmp)