Be in the know. 20 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Oil jumps as Trump talks up truce hopes for Saudi-Russia price war (StreetInsider)
  2. No One Is Betting in Casinos—Or on Their Stocks ()
  3. Trump says expects Russia-Saudi oil deal soon, invites US oil chiefs to White House (Reuters)
  4. Oil rallies as Trump spurs hopes for Russia-Saudi pact (Financial Times)
  5. Detroit To Be The First City To Roll Out Abbott’s 5-Minute Coronavirus Tests (Benzinga)
  6. Kroger’s sales jump 30% as shoppers stock up amid coronavirus crisis New York Post)
  7. Retailers Under Growing Pressure to Let Workers Wear Masks New York Times)
  8. Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World (Bloomberg)
  9. Walgreens earnings top estimates, says it can’t forecast the impact of coronavirus pandemic (CNBC)
  10. Trump To Talk Aid For Oil As Big Shale Firm Files For Bankruptcy (Investor’s Business Daily)
  11. Big Banks Get Temporary Reprieve (Barron’s)
  12. These 8 Aristocrats Have Safe Dividends. (Safe Being a Relative Term Right Now). (Barron’s)
  13. A Top Occidental Petroleum Executive Is Out as Company Grapples With Oil Rout (Wall Street Journal)
  14. The Fed Is Settling Into Its Role as the World’s Central Bank (Wall Street Journal)
  15. 5 Blue Chip Stocks to Buy Now With Huge Piles of Cash and Very Low Debt (24/7 Wall Street)
  16. Trump May Join Oil Talks Between Russia And Saudi Arabia (Yahoo! Finance)
  17. Workers Return to China’s Factories, but Coronavirus Hurts Global Demand (Wall Street Journal)
  18. Coronavirus Tests Aren’t Hard to Find Everywhere (Wall Street Journal)
  19. Telemedicine, Once a Hard Sell, Can’t Keep Up With Demand (Wall Street Journal)
  20. How a Mailman Still Carries On During Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 16 key reads for Monday…

  1. These Drugs Are Helping Our Coronavirus Patients (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement (Federal Reserve)
  3. Fed calls emergency meeting, announces unprecedented moves to calm corporate debt (Yahoo! Finance)
  4. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Big Tech Picks, Bank Stocks Large and Small And More (Yahoo! Finance)
  5. Danaher (DHR) Unit Cepheid Granted FDA Emergency Use Authorization for 45 Minute COVID-19 Test (Street Insider)
  6. One Anecdote (NY Testing Starts Tomorrow): Florida man with coronavirus says drug touted by Trump saved his life (New York Post)
  7. Stock futures cut losses as Fed announces limitless asset purchases to keep markets functioning (CNBC)
  8. Bond girl Olga Kurylenko says she has ‘completely recovered’ from coronavirus (New York Post)
  9. Gilead Stops Accepting Emergency Applications for Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir (Barron’s)
  10. Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson ‘feel better’ two weeks after first coronavirus symptoms (New York Post)
  11. Virus Rescue Plan Stalls When Democrats Block McConnell’s Offer (Bloomberg)
  12. Honeywell boosting mask production, creating hundreds of jobs (Fox Business)
  13. Kashkari to Congress: Err on the side of being too generous (MarketWatch)
  14. Dollar General to hire 50,000 employees by the end of April (MarketWatch)
  15. Fed will make up to $4 trillion in loans to businesses to rescue the U.S. economy, Mnuchin says (MarketWatch)
  16. Why It’s So Difficult to Stop the Spread of the Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Trump to buy oil for strategic reserve to aid energy industry: ‘We’re going to fill it’ (CNBC)
  2. Gilead Pops After Coronavirus Drug Helps Cruise Ship Patients In Japan Investor’s Business Daily)
  3. Europe Pledges Billions in Economic Aid in Rare Sign of Unity (New York Times)
  4. Dow surges nearly 2,000 points after Trump declares coronavirus national emergency (New York Post)
  5. Trump Says He Supports Pelosi Virus Bill, Urges GOP to Vote Yes (Bloomberg)
  6. Trump Waives Student-Loan Interest, Stockpiles Oil in Virus Plan (Bloomberg)
  7. Esports Leagues Are Only Game in Town After NBA and NHL Go Dark (Bloomberg)
  8. Stocks Retrace 90% of Thursday’s Sell-Off With Trump Address Hitting Mark (Bloomberg)
  9. Cash-Rich Billionaire Hargreaves Jumps Back Into Market (Bloomberg)
  10. Trump called on Walmart, CVS, Target, and Walgreens to help slow the spread of the coronavirus as he declares a national emergency (Business Insider)
  11. Stocks Surge After Trump Promises Speedier Testing (New York Times)
  12. How Billie Eilish Rode Teenage Weirdness to Stardom (New York Times)
  13. Deadly viruses are no match for plain, old soap — here’s the science behind it (MarketWatch)
  14. 18 Stocks to Buy Amid the Coronavirus Carnage, According to Barron’s Roundtable Experts (Barron’s)
  15. China’s coronavirus epicenter reports just five cases (Reuters)
  16. Here’s everything you need to know about 5G (CNN)
  17. Google, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing (Reuters)
  18. 7 Stocks That Could Ride Out the Turmoil in Energy Markets (Barron’s)
  19. The World Is One Big Carry Trade (Institutional Investor)
  20. Value investors: why are they so calm in a crisis? (Schroders)

 

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Bonds Rally as Stocks Close Lower (Wall Street Journal)
  2. The US government has never had a better opportunity to truly reshape our economy (Business Insider)
  3. Wash Your Hands—but Beware the Electric Hand Dryer (Wired)
  4. The Koenigsegg Gemera is the world’s most wickedly weird hybrid (The Verge)
  5. Episode 977: Where’s The Vaccine? (NPR Planet Money)
  6. CRISPR Treatment Inserted Directly into the Body for the First Time (Scientific American)
  7. Did Passive Investing Fuel A Bubble In Tech Stocks? (Podcast) (Bloomberg Odd Lots)
  8. A simple guide to the vaccines and drugs that could fight coronavirus (Vox)
  9. ‘Unclean! Unclean!’: The Questionable History of Quarantines (Popular Machanics)
  10. Sam Zell Is Buying the Dips in Energy (Chief Investment Officer)