Be in the know. 20 key reads for Monday…

  1. U.S. Banks to Turn Last Year’s Cash Buildup Into Profits (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Biden Eyes First Major Tax Hike Since 1993 in Next Economic Plan (Bloomberg)
  3. With New Covid Relief On Its Way, the Focus Turns to Infrastructure (Barron’s)
  4. China Industrial Output, Retail Sales Surge In Pandemic Rebound (Barron’s)
  5. Here’s What Wall Street Will Focus on as the Fed Rate Panel Meets (Barron’s)
  6. Americans Are Flying Again. Here’s Who Benefits. (Barron’s)
  7. White House Weighs How to Pay for Long-Term Economic Program (Wall Street Journal)
  8. Why the Next Big-Tech Fights Are in State Capitals (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Why $4-a-Gallon Gas May Be Coming Your Way This Summer (New York Times)
  10. New York Manufacturing Expands Most Since 2018 as Prices Climb (Bloomberg)
  11. The Housing Boom That Never Ends Already Wiped Out All the Short-Sellers (Bloomberg)
  12. India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners, traders –source (Business Insider)
  13. The $166 billion of SPAC deals in the 1st quarter exceeds all of 2020 (Business Insider)
  14. Big questions loom ahead of Biden’s next spending push, like ‘what is infrastructure?’ (Reuters)
  15. Investor questions for the Fed: rebound, inflation and yields (Reuters)
  16. Why Costco may actually still win long after the pandemic ends (Yahoo! Finance)
  17. China Becomes First Major Economy to Start Withdrawing Pandemic Stimulus Efforts (Wall Street Journal)
  18. Taylor Swift Wins Album of the Year at the Grammys (Wall Street Journal)
  19. Not-So Supertankers Deserve a Look as Pandemic Fades (Wall Street Journal)
  20. Overlooked corner of stock market offers protection from bond-market volatility (Fox Business)