Be in the know. 25 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Amazon Faces Growing Worker Pressure in Shadow of Alabama Union Vote (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Green Energy Spinoffs Can Help Investors Clean Up (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Consumer Spending Explodes, Driven By Vaccine Recipients, Millennials Splurging On Airlines, Restaurants (ZeroHedge)
  4. Stock futures slide as Powell warns Fed could taper asset purchases (Fox Business)
  5. Institutional Investors Have Been Influenced by Reddit — But They Still Don’t Trust It (Institutional Investor)
  6. Billionaire Investor Ray Dalio Believes That Governments Are Likely To Outlaw Bitcoin (Benzinga)
  7. 3 Oil Stocks to Buy After the Selloff (Barron’s)
  8. Banks to Continue Benefiting from Ongoing Growth-to-Value Rotation – Morgan Stanley (Street Insider)
  9. It’s ‘all systems go’ for global growth and the risk rally, Barclays says. Here’s how to play it. (MarketWatch)
  10. Pfizer says Ibrance gives more survival time to some breast-cancer patients (MarketWatch)
  11. Wall Street Anxious to See How New Citigroup CEO Can Improve Returns (Barron’s)
  12. U.S.-China Tensions Are Rising. Nike Stock Is Paying the Price. (Barron’s)
  13. Biogen Investors Want News on Alzheimer’s Therapy. 2 More Key Points to Watch. (Barron’s)
  14. H&R Block Wants to Do More Than Your Taxes. Why Its Stock Is a Buy (Barron’s)
  15. Chinese Tech Stocks Slump in Hong Kong as SEC Implements Delisting Law (Barron’s)
  16. Suez Canal Is Blocked by Container Ship Causing Huge Traffic Jam (Wall Street Journal)
  17. Democrats Weigh Increases in Corporate, Personal Income-Tax Rates (Wall Street Journal)
  18. Carbon Tax Sidelined in Biden’s Push on Climate, Taxes (Wall Street Journal)
  19. Jerome Powell Says Better Outlook Reflects Vaccine Progress, Fiscal Aid (Bloomberg)
  20. Ed Yardeni Can Live With Higher Yields for the Sake of Earnings (Bloomberg)
  21. U.S. State Jobless Claims Fell to Pandemic-Era Low Last Week (Bloomberg)
  22. Clorox Bets Big on Not Going Back to Normal (Bloomberg)
  23. Drill, Baby, Drill Hasn’t Died in the U.S. Shale Patch (Bloomberg)
  24. U.S. GDP growth in fourth quarter raised slightly to 4.3% — and all signs point to economy speeding up (MarketWatch)
  25. JPMorgan says stimulus checks are driving less retail-investing activity than the last round of payments (Business Insider)