Be in the know. 12 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Oil Companies Are Finally Pumping Out Cash. That’s Good News for Their Stocks. (Barron’s)
  2. Buy Occidental Petroleum Stock, Morgan Stanley Says. Its Dividend Is ‘Best-In-Class.’ (Barron’s)
  3. JPMorgan posts record profit in strong start to US earnings season (Financial Times)
  4. Citigroup earnings beat expectations on 49% fixed-income trading surge (CNBC)
  5. For Howard Marks, Investing Is Like a Game (Institutional Investor)
  6. Hedge fund puts $550m into technology stock option financing (Financial Times)
  7. EXCLUSIVE: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon praises ‘phase one’ US-China trade deal (Fox Business)
  8. 2 GM engineers arrested after 100-mph Kentucky joyride in new Corvettes (USA Today)
  9. Big Commitments for China Energy/Ag Buys in Phase 1 Trade Deal (Reuters)
  10. Worry over ‘Japanification’ of the economy is overblown (Barron’s)
  11. Warren Buffett Should Buy FedEx. It’s Cheap and Elephant-Sized. (Barron’s)
  12. Xi Strikes Optimistic Tone After Riding Out Trade War With Trump (Bloomberg)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for New Year’s Day…

  1. Three Neglected Parts of the Stock Market That Could Win in 2020 (Barron’s)
  2. How investors see 2020 shaping up in US financial markets (Financial Times)
  3. Stock Market Caps Bullish Year With Modest Gains; Which Sectors Will Lead In 2020? (Investor’s Business Daily)
  4. Steve Cohen one of few bright spots in bad year for hedge funds (New York Post)
  5. Chill, It Might Not Be That Bad: The Optimist’s Guide to 2020 (Bloomberg)
  6. India Stocks Rise as Investors Bank on Economic Recovery in 2020 (Bloomberg)
  7. Oil Caps Strongest Year Since 2016 on OPEC Cuts, Trade Truce (Bloomberg)
  8. UK is set to exit the EU next month: Here are some important Brexit-related dates of 2020 (CNBC)
  9. Warren Buffett turned down a chance to buy Tiffany’s (Business Insider)
  10. 11 Top Merrill Lynch Stock Picks for 2020 (24/7 Wall Street)
  11. Here are the best and worst Dow and S&P 500 stocks of 2019 (MarketWatch)
  12. These are the 20 best-performing stocks of the past decade, and some of them will surprise you (MarketWatch)
  13. These 10 S&P 500 stocks were lousy in 2019, but they could return 40% or more in 2020 (MarketWatch)
  14. Dow, Exxon Mobil and IBM top the ‘Dogs of the Dow’ list as 2019 ends (MarketWatch)
  15. Oil analysts bet on modest price gains in 2020 as supply shrinks: Reuters poll (Yahoo! Finance)

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The J. Paul Getty (Energy) Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Thursday…

  1. 10 Undervalued Energy Stocks for 2020 (24/7 Wall Street)
  2. Biotech Stocks Are In a Position to Break Out in 2020, Analysts Say (MarketWatch)
  3. Opinion: Takeaway from Abu Dhabi money conference: So much money is looking to find a home (MarketWatch)
  4. BOJ to begin lending ETFs to prop up market liquidity (Reuters)
  5. The J. Paul Getty (Energy) Stock Market (and Sentiment Results) (ZeroHedge)
  6. Oil Stocks To Buy As Prices Rebound: Here Are U.S. Shale, Market Cap Leaders (Yahoo! Finance)
  7. Think the Dow Is OId-Fashioned? It Beat the S&P 500 Over 5 Years. (Barron’s)
  8. The Best Cars—Including Two Electric Vehicles—I Drove in 2019 ()
  9. Tesla shares close at a record high.  Next stop $420? (CNBC)
  10. ‘I couldn’t have been more wrong’: Legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller reveals a mistake he made that cost him major market returns (Business Insider)
  11. The ‘ultimate smart money indicator’ is signalling a big move in the stock market by the end of the week (MarketWatch)
  12. China says in touch with U.S. on signing of Phase 1 trade deal (Reuters)
  13. Biotech Analysts See Deals, Drug Data Carrying 2020 Performance (Yahoo! Finance)
  14. Investors Pony Up More Than $2B for Distressed Fund (Institutional Investor)
  15. US House poised to approve USMCA trade deal (Financial Times)

The J. Paul Getty (Energy) Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)

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Be in the know. 10 key reads for Monday…

  1. Embattled Oil Stocks Occidental and Chesapeake See Large Insider Buys (Barron’s)
  2. Lighthizer Scores a Trifecta of Wins for Trump’s Trade Agenda (Bloomberg)
  3. A Warren Buffett Protégé on the Most Critical Thing She’s Learned About Turning Companies Around (Fortune)
  4. Opinion: There’s more upside for biotech even after 24% gains in two months (MarketWatch)
  5. Villains or visionaries? Hedge funds short companies they say ‘greenwash’ (Reuters)
  6. Fresh off election win, Boris Johnson seeks new Brexit legislation ‘before Christmas’ (MarketWatch)
  7. Stock market ‘melt-up’ coming soon: Bank of America (FoxBusiness)
  8. Bond funds revel in white-hot year for fixed income (Financial Times)
  9. Analysts: 9 Stocks Will Grow Sales The Most Next Year (Investor’s Business Daily)
  10. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Charles Schwab, Disney, Sprint, Netflix And More (Yahoo! Finance)