Be in the know. 20 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. OPEC drama threatens oil production promises (FoxBusiness)
  2. Xi Is Forgetting the Very Thing That Made China Great Again (Bloomberg)
  3. Why Wynn Resorts’ Stock Could Jump 40% (Barron’s)
  4. Xi Jinping Approves Action on Everything From Monopolies to Pollution (Bloomberg)
  5. Covid Hasn’t Let Up, but These Stay-at-Home Stocks Have (Barron’s)
  6. ‘Hybrid Meetings’ Will Become the Norm. This Cheap Stock Could Be a Winner. (Barron’s)
  7. China’s New Curbs Aren’t Game Over for Tencent, Netease (Wall Street Journal)
  8. Gaming Stocks Pare Losses as Traders Weigh China’s Online Curbs (Bloomberg)
  9. Xi Jinping Shows China He’s the Ultimate Tiger Mom (Bloomberg)
  10. Millions of Americans will lose unemployment benefits this weekend (CNBC)
  11. China’s services activity contracts for the first time since 2020, data shows (CNBC)
  12. Citi Starts Occidental (OXY) at Buy, Sees 40% Upside (StreetInsider)
  13. BofA Maintains Buy on Netflix (NFLX) as Rich Content Schedule Likely to Drive Subscriber Growth (StreetInsider)
  14. Now, August is good for stocks: Morning Brief (Yahoo! Finance)
  15. 9 Cash-Rich Stocks That Can Better Weather the Fed’s Taper Risks (Barron’s)
  16. Consumer-Service Stocks Have Underperformed. Why It’s Their Time to Shine. (Barron’s)
  17. Oil Industry Surveys Damage After Hurricane Ida Slams Louisiana (Wall Street Journal)
  18. Krispy Kreme Focuses on Reducing Debt, Delivering Fresher Doughnuts (Wall Street Journal)
  19. Common Prosperity: Decoding China’s New Populism (Wall Street Journal)
  20. The S&P 500 hasn’t seen a year-to-date rally this strong since 1997. What’s next? (MarketWatch)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Monday…

  1. Chinese Tech Stocks Rally to Start Week as Investors Eye Bottom (Bloomberg)
  2. Small-Cap Stocks Might Be Getting Ready to Run. (Barron’s)
  3. Fed to keep pumping roughly $1 trillion of liquidity into markets during tapering, JPMorgan says (MarketWatch)
  4. China Slashes Kids’ Gaming Time to Just Three Hours a Week (Bloomberg)
  5. Opinion: The S&P 500 will keep going up this fall — for these 9 reasons (MarketWatch)
  6. Stock-market investors scour alternative data for delta variant clues — here’s what they found (MarketWatch)
  7. Opinion: What the growth vs. value stock debate reveals about the bull market’s future (MarketWatch)
  8. CVS Wants to Be Your Therapist, Too (Wall Street Journal)
  9. New Life and Work Choices Revitalize Exurbs, Bringing New Strains (Wall Street Journal)
  10. China Sees Skilled Labor Shortages Worsening Amid Tech Push (Bloomberg)
  11. Billionaire Paulson Who Shorted Subprime Calls Crypto ‘Worthless’ Bubble (Bloomberg)
  12. Why China and U.S. Are Clashing Over Stock Listings (Bloomberg)
  13. China’s regulatory crackdown has wiped billions off tech stocks — here are the risks ahead (CNBC)
  14. Rolls-Royce investor Causeway Capital calls for board refresh – Financial Times (Reuters)
  15. China August factory activity seen growing at slightly slower pace: Reuters poll (Reuters)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Analysis: Powell’s wait-and-see speech reassures some investors (Reuters)
  2. China edtech giants cut tens of thousands of jobs: report (technode)
  3. Small Cap Labor Day Rally Getting Underway (Almanac Trader)
  4. Who’s really feeling the shipping cost squeeze? (Financial Times)
  5. Common Prosperity: Decoding China’s New Populism (Wall Street Journal)
  6. Why Is the Supply Chain Still So Snarled? We Explain, With a Hot Tub (Wall Street Journal)
  7. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (advisorperspectives)
  8. CryptoPunks blasts past $1 billion in lifetime sales as NFT speculation surges (techcrunch)
  9. How Are Investors Navigating China’s Regulatory Uncertainty? (goldmansachs)
  10. Watch This Twin-Turbo C8 Corvette Set a Nine-Second Quarter-Mile Record (roadandtrack)
  11. What Did Succession Season 3 Film at The Plaza? (townandcountrymag)
  12. Unraveling the Mystery of Why Children Are Better Protected from COVID Than Adults (scientificamerican)
  13. 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Bob Ross (howstuffworks)
  14. Stock Market Turns Cautious as ‘Defensive’ Shares Surge (Wall Street Journal)
  15. High-Frequency Charts Show U.S. Economy Softening From Delta (Bloomberg)