Be in the know. 20 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Medicare Drug Pricing Reform Fails in Committee: Congress Update (Bloomberg)
  2. Macau’s Review of Casino Operations Sparks a Selloff, and a Buying Opportunity (Barron’s)
  3. Retail sales post surprise gain as consumers show strength despite delta fears (CNBC)
  4. No Chinese Stock Left Among Global Top 10 as Tencent Slides (Bloomberg)
  5. Southeast Asia has added 70 million online shoppers since Covid, report finds (CNBC)
  6. The stock market is undergoing a slow motion deterioration with pockets of shares down 20% or more (CNBC)
  7. FTC Turns Up Heat on Big Tech, Promising More Antitrust Scrutiny (Barron’s)
  8. Jerry Seinfeld Was Right: New York’s Not Dead (Bloomberg)
  9. Democratic Tax Proposal Takes Aim at ETFs (Wall Street Journal)
  10. Demand for Natural Gas Will Keep Prices High. What to Know. (Barron’s)
  11. Oil Just Broke $70. Why It Can Go to $100. (Barron’s)
  12. How the U.S. Nailed the Economic Response to Covid-19 (Wall Street Journal)
  13. China’s Economic Recovery Is Looking Gloomier (Wall Street Journal)
  14. China Has Fully Vaccinated More Than 1 Billion People (Bloomberg)
  15. Jim Cramer lists 12 ways for stocks to shake off their September struggles (CNBC)
  16. There was insider trading on NFT platform OpenSea, the $1.5 billion start-up admits (CNBC)
  17. Emotional AI and other ‘moonshot’ technologies could grow to $6 trillion market by 2030, says Bank of America (marketwatch)
  18. US builds bulwark against China with UK-Australia security pact (Financial Times)
  19. Lachlan Murdoch becomes serial dealmaker at helm of media empire (Financial Times)
  20. Stay bullish and remember September is markets’ weakest month of year: Belski (Fox Business)